NSF grants in support of sponsored post-doctoral fellowship programs
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/us/usc/t42/s1862p–11
Title
42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter
CH16
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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The Director of the National Science Foundation may utilize funds appropriated to carry out grants to institutions of higher education (as such term is defined in section 1001(a) of title 20) to provide financial support for post-graduate research in fields with potential commercial applications to match, in whole or in part, any private sector grant of financial assistance to any post-doctoral program in such a field of study.
(Pub. L. 111–358, title V, § 522, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 4017.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, also known as the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Reauthorization Act of 2010, and also as part of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2010, and not as part of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 which comprises this chapter.
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