Broader impacts in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology leave hope for improvement
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Since 1997, researchers applying for grant funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been asked to give an account of the broader societal effects of their proposed research. The Broader Impacts Criterion was intended as a supplement to the traditional "intellectual merit" criterion, with the hope of creating an incentive for principal investigators to consider and enhance the further-reaching benefits of their work.