National Science Foundation

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. an independent agency of the executive branch, created in 1950, that promotes and supports research and education in the sciences. : NSF

Example Sentences

While there have been photographs of Steve for decades, it only got the name Steve in 2016, following a US citizen science project funded by Nasa and the National Science Foundation.

From BBC

The Small Business Administration, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation should encourage user ownership of the companies they fund.

From Los Angeles Times

The platform, which is funded through a National Science Foundation grant, consists of data privacy notices for nearly two dozen unique city-deployed technologies that collect personally identifiable information.

From Los Angeles Times

An opinion poll that I led in mid-May with Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences — funded by the National Science Foundation — makes this clear.

From Los Angeles Times

Dou and the team received funding support for their research from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

From Science Daily