NSF Nuggets

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NSF Nuggets

• HIGHLIGHTS

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What are Highlights?

• Brief descriptions of NSF-funded projects and
  their impacts
• Understandable by non-scientists

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What are Highlights used for?

• NSF report for Government Performance and Results
  Act (GPRA)
• NSF Advisory Committees
• Presidents Budget Request to Congress
• Congressional Testimony
• Speeches and press releases
• NSF website

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NSF Strategic Plan 2006-2011

• New Goals
• Discovery
• Learning
• Research Infrastructure
• Stewardship
• (these replace previous goals of people, tools,
  ideas, organizational excellence)

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Process for Highlighting

• Jurisdictional EPSCoR/institution submissions
• Editing /packaging by NSF EPSCoR
• Review/approval/culling by various NSF offices
• Highlights published/disseminated according to
  audience/purpose

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A GREAT Highlights Submission

• Relates to discovery, learning, research
  infrastructure, or stewardship
• Has a project description understandable by a
  non-scientist
• Describes the projects impact (past, present,
  and/or future)
• Includes data and images/pictures

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