Chapter 16 - NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Section 1861 - Establishment; composition
Section 1862 - Functions
Section 1862a - Findings and purpose
Section 1862b - Establishment of Program
Section 1862c - Procedures, guidelines, and planning activities
Section 1862d - Set-aside for certain institutions
Section 1862e - Evaluations of research centers
Section 1862f - Research center consortia
Section 1862g - Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Section 1862h - Congressional statement of findings and declaration of purposes respecting scientific and technical education and training
Section 1862i - STEM education
Section 1862j - Authorization of appropriations
Section 1862k - Findings; core strategies
Section 1862l - National research facilities
Section 1862m - Financial disclosure
Section 1862n - Mathematics and science education partnerships
Section 1862n-1 - Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Section 1862n-1a - National Science Foundation Teaching Fellowships and Master Teaching Fellowships
Section 1862n-2 - Establishment of centers for research on mathematics and science learning and education improvement
Section 1862n-3 - Duplication of programs
Section 1862n-4 - Major research equipment and facilities construction plan
Section 1862n-5 - Board meetings; audits; reports; scholarship eligibility
Section 1862n-6 - Undergraduate education reform
Section 1862n-7 - Reports
Section 1862n-8 - Evaluations
Section 1862n-9 - Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
Section 1862n-10 - Minority-serving institutions undergraduate program
Section 1862o - Postdoctoral research fellows
Section 1862o-1 - Responsible conduct of research
Section 1862o-2 - Reporting of research results
Section 1862o-3 - Sharing research results
Section 1862o-4 - Funding for successful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education programs
Section 1862o-5 - Meeting critical national science needs
Section 1862o-6 - Research on innovation and inventiveness
Section 1862o-7 - Cyberinfrastructure
Section 1862o-8 - Pilot program of grants for new investigators
Section 1862o-9 - Broader impacts merit review criterion
Section 1862o-10 - Advanced information and communications technology research
Section 1862o-11 - Repealed
Section 1862o-12 - Hispanic-serving institutions undergraduate program
Section 1862o-13 - Professional science master's degree programs
Section 1862o-14 - Major research instrumentation
Section 1862o-15 - Limit on proposals
Section 1862p - National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Section 1862p-1 - National Science Foundation manufacturing research and education
Section 1862p-2 - Partnerships for innovation
Section 1862p-3 - Sustainable chemistry basic research
Section 1862p-4 - Undergraduate broadening participation program
Section 1862p-5 - Research experiences for high school students
Section 1862p-6 - Research experiences for undergraduates
Section 1862p-7 - STEM industry internship programs
Section 1862p-8 - Cyber-enabled learning for national challenges
Section 1862p-9 - Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Section 1862p-10 - Academic technology transfer and commercialization of university research
Section 1862p-11 - NSF grants in support of sponsored post-doctoral fellowship programs
Section 1862p-12 - Cloud computing research enhancement
Section 1862p-13 - Tribal colleges and universities program
Section 1862p-14 - Broader Impacts Review Criterion
Section 1862p-15 - Twenty-first century graduate education
Section 1862q - Informal STEM education
Section 1862r - Research in disabilities education
Section 1862r-1 - Dyslexia
Section 1862s - Reaffirmation of merit-based peer review
Section 1862s-1 - Transparency and accountability
Section 1862s-2 - Oversight of NSF major multi-user research facility projects
Section 1862s-3 - Personnel oversight
Section 1862s-4 - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative
Section 1862s-5 - Programs to expand STEM opportunities
Section 1862s-6 - Presidential awards for excellence in STEM mentoring
Section 1862s-7 - Computer science education research
Section 1862s-8 - Innovation Corps
Section 1862s-9 - Translational research grants
Section 1862t - Supporting veterans in STEM education and computer science
Section 1862u - NSF support of research on opioid addiction
Section 1862v - National Science Foundation research
Section 1862w - NSF support of research on impacts of social media on human trafficking
Section 1863 - National Science Board
Section 1864 - Director of Foundation
Section 1864a - Deputy Director of the Foundation
Section 1865 - Executive Committee
Section 1866 - Divisions within Foundation
Section 1867 - Repealed
Section 1868 - Special commissions
Section 1869 - Scholarships and graduate fellowships
Section 1869a - Contracts for precollege science or engineering curriculum development activities; inspection of materials by parent or guardian
Section 1869b - Issuance of instructions to grantees of pre-college curriculum projects
Section 1869c - Low-income scholarship program
Section 1870 - General authority of Foundation
Section 1870a - Buy-American requirements
Section 1871 - Disposition of inventions produced under contracts or other arrangements
Section 1872 - International cooperation and coordination with foreign policy
Section 1872a - Repealed
Section 1873 - Employment of personnel
Section 1873a - Repealed
Section 1874 - Security provisions
Section 1875 - Appropriations
Section 1875a - National Science Foundation Nonrecurring Expenses Fund
Section 1876 to 1879 - Repealed
Section 1880 - National Medal of Science
Section 1881 - Award of National Medal of Science
Section 1881a - Alan T. Waterman Award
Section 1881b - Presidential awards for teaching excellence
Section 1882 - Information furnished to Congressional committees
Section 1883 - Office of Small Business Research and Development
Section 1884 - Repealed
Section 1885 - Congressional statement of findings and declaration of policy respecting equal opportunities in science and engineering
Section 1885a - Women in science and engineering; support of activities by Foundation for promotion, etc
Section 1885b - Participation in science and engineering of minorities and persons with disabilities
Section 1885c - Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering
Section 1885d - Biennial reports
Section 1886 - Data collection and analysis
Section 1886a - Data on specific fields of study
Section 1887 - Indemnification of grantees, contractors, and subcontractors under ocean drilling program; approvals and certifications by Director