National Science Foundation(NSF) is the US Government foundation which provide grants and scholarships in the field of all medical, non-medical, science, and mathematical engineering research. NSF is the major source of federal backing and specially supports fieds as mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics and SSC. It has total budget of about $6.87 billion(2010).
Recently Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College(MGCCC) got a grant money of five year plan from NSF in the same fields worth $599,855. This is to be distributed to 37 students worth $2,800. This is specially has been designed for the new enrollment of science and technology and all that.
NSF[https://www.nsf.gov/funding/]
NSF, NIH Award Grants To Study Spread Of Diseases
Recently, NSF and NIH(National Institute of Health) has awarded twelve grants worth a combined $12.7 million for preventing the spread of the diseases to the scientists for investigation and research on the same issue like disease-causing viruses and bacterium in people and animal both. There is big damage of food production due to diseases in the plants and animals.
NSF and various colleges, universities, K-12 schools, organizations, research foundations, businesses has agreement in United States. It has got 40,000 application every year, but only 11,000 have got the grants.
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