Children's Bad Behavior Gives Insights to Academic Achievement and Later Career Success

New research suggests that children entering school with behavior problems, as a rule, can keep pace with classroom learning, but persistent behavior problems can be a strong indicator of how well these students adapt to the work world.Two studies entirely funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Developmental and Learning Sciences program uncovered these results. Researchers working through the Center for the Analyses of Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood (CAPCA) a More ...

NSF Awards Grants for Three Critical Zone Observatories

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected sites for three critical zone observatories (CZO). The observatories are designed to provide scientists with an understanding of what has come to be called the critical zone--the region between the top of the forest canopy and the base of unweathered rock: our living environment--and its response to climate and land use changes. The CZOs represent the first set of systems-based observatories dedicated to Earth surface processes. Scient More ...

NSF Awards Focus on Policy Implications of Global Change Throughout the Americas

Funding for six international research projects to study the interactions of global change, climate variability, land use and human effects has been awarded as part of a new Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) program to investigate the policy implications of climate change in the Americas. The IAI is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its equivalents in other IAI member countries.The collaborative research network (CRN) awards fund internation More ...

Call for National Medal of Science Nominations

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will accept applications for the National Medal of Science until Dec. 7, 2007. Established by Congress in 1959, the National Medal of Science is the Nation's highest honor for American scientists and engineers presented annually by the President of the United States. The National Medal of Science is presented to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the biological, engineering, mat More ...