Board on Chemical Sciences & Technology

摘要CTS-9420478美国国家科学院P.I.：道格拉斯·J·拉伯国家研究委员会(NRC)请求国家科学基金会(NSF)为物理科学、数学和应用委员会化学科学与技术委员会(BCST)的持续活动提供部分核心支持。BCST拥有包括化学、生物化学和化学工程在内的整个化学社区作为其支持者，这些社区包括学术、工业和政府实验室。因此，该委员会是国家研究理事会内在最广泛意义上影响化学的关切和问题的协调中心。理事会的活动需要为潜在的研究进行广泛的规划(包括确定可行性、评估范围和获得资金)，监督正在进行的活动，私营部门筹资，以及与化学界进行广泛的沟通。所有这些都是核心活动，不向具体项目收费。开发一个新项目的能力，同时用核心资金支付部分或全部费用，大大加强了理事会对化学科学和技术中的重要问题采取行动的自由和能力。所申请的资金将使BCST继续成为一个强大和独立的机构，能够在不受与具体项目直接挂钩的资金所造成的一些压力和限制的环境中运作和规划。这一核心支持将有助于理事会最大限度地发挥其通过国家科学院向其提供的科学人才的效力，并积极开展对社区具有重要意义的新任务，特别是依赖时间的任务。将从其他联邦机构、私营机构和私营部门寻求额外的核心支持。

ABSTRACT CTS-9420478 National Academy of Sciences P. I.: Douglas J. Raber The National Research Council (NRC) requests partial core support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the continuing activities of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. The BCST has as its constituency the entire chemical community, encompassing chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering, in academic, industrial, and government laboratories. Accordingly, the Board serves as the focal point within the National Research Council for concerns and issues affecting chemistry in its broadest sense. Board activities require extensive planning (including the determination of feasibility, evaluation of scope, and acquisition of funding) for potential studies, oversight of ongoing activities, private sector fund raising, and a broadly directed effort to communicate with the chemical community. All of these are core activities, which are not chargeable to specific projects. The capacity to develop a new project, while paying costs partially or fully from core funds, greatly enhances the freedom and ability of the Board to act responsively to important issues in the chemical sciences and technology. The requested funding will allow the BCST to remain a strong and independent body that can operate and plan in an environment free from some of the pressures and constraints imposed by funding that is directly tied to specific projects. This core support will help the Board to maximize its effectiveness in utilizing the scientific talent available to it through the National Academies and in aggressively launching new tasks of importance to the community, especially tasks that are time-dependent. Additional core support will be sought from other federal agencies and the private agencies and the private sector.