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National Science Foundation Steps Up Its Push for Interdisciplinary Research
For universities worried about securing federal research money at a time of tightening budgets, the National Science Foundation has a simple message: Collaborate.
In the same week President Obama is unveiling his budget recommendations for the 2013 fiscal year, the NSF is sending a top official to U.S. campuses urging even greater attention to promoting interdisciplinary practices in research.
Myron P. Gutmann, who is assistant director for the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.Chief message is that NSF grants will be increasingly won by those researchers who find partners in other university departments.
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