NSF monitors career development of physicists.
by: Christine Zafra
The National Science Foundation or the NSF is a government agency of the United States that promotes the welfare of science and engineering. This agency does research projects for the betterment of science, hoping to contribute to the database of scientific facts and pieces of information.
To maintain the quality of programs and career developments in their agency, they hold a biennial survey of those who have doctorate degrees. The survey is more of a random sampling: they survey physicists from all age groups who have doctorate degrees in science, engineering, health etc., all from American Universities. This survey acts as monitoring tool in which they could asses the current status of their development as an agency.
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