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NSF Congressional Highlight
NSF Budget Goes to Congress
April 9, 2001
Today President Bush's FY 02 budget proposal, including
a $4.47 billion request for NSF, was delivered to
Congress. The FY 02 NSF request is a 1.3 percent increase
over last year's figure. A breakdown of budget categories
shows an 11% increase in education and human resources
and 6 to 8 percent increases for salaries and expenses
and the Inspector General, respectively. These increases
are buffered by a 20.6 percent reduction in major
research equipment (MRE) and a slight decrease (0.5
percent) in research-related activities, which at
$3.43 billion constitute nearly three quarters of
the NSF budget.
(in $ millions)
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FY
01
Budget |
FY
02
Request |
Percent
Change |
Research & Related
Activities |
$3,343 |
$3,327 |
-0.5% |
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Education & Human
Resources |
$786 |
$872 |
11.0% |
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Major
Research
Equipment |
$121 |
$96 |
-20.6% |
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Salaries &
Expenses |
$161 |
$170 |
5.9% |
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| Inspector General (OIG) |
$6 |
$7 |
7.8% |
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| Total
NSF |
$4,416 |
$4,472 |
1.3% |
Highlights of the budget proposal include:
The $200 million Math and Science Partnerships Initiative
aims to enhance K-12 student achievement in these
areas through alliances between state and local K-12
school districts and institutions of higher education.
This initiative is part of President Bush's No Child
Left Behind plan for K-12 education reform.
NSF requests funds to increase graduate fellowship
stipends from $18,000 to $20,500 annually, under the
Graduate Research Fellowships, GK-12, and IGERT programs.
This increase is needed to ensure adequate numbers
of students are willing and able to enter graduate
school and meet the demands of today's technology-based
workforce.
$20 million of the FY 02 budget will be invested in
interdisciplinary mathematics research, enabling cutting-edge
mathematicians to address problems in the physical,
biological and social sciences.
Increased investments will be focused on four research
priority areas:
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Biocomplexity
in the Environment |
$58
million (5.9 percent increase over FY 01) |
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| Information
Technology Research |
$273
million (5.0 percent increase over FY 01) |
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| Nanoscale
Science and Engineering |
$174
million (16.1 percent increase over FY 01) |
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| Learning
for the 21st Century |
$126
million (3.3 percent increase over FY 01) |
The George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering
Simulation, the Large Hadron Collider, and terascale
computing systems are the three projects slated to
receive continued funding under the MRE budget line
in FY 02.
The entire NSF FY
02 budget proposal is on-line at: http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2002/start.htm
See also:
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