Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

CTS-9714571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。根据其使命声明的定义，化学科学和技术委员会是国家研究理事会内公认和受人尊敬的机构，向政府提供独立、客观的化学科学和技术信息和建议，以确保为政策决策提供可靠的基础。因此，委员会是国家研究理事会内最广泛意义上影响化学的关切和问题的协调中心。为了有效地发挥作用，BCST必须对潜在的研究进行广泛的规划，对正在进行的活动进行监督，参与私营部门的资金筹集，并保持与化学科学界的广泛沟通。所有这些都是核心活动，其费用不能计入具体项目，因此需要核心资金。开发新项目的能力，同时从核心资金中支付部分或全部费用，大大加强了BCST对化学科学和技术中的重要问题负责任和负责任地采取行动的自由和能力。

ABSTRACT CTS-9714571 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. As defined in its mission statement, the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology is the recognized and respected body within the National Research Council that provides independent, objective information and recommendations in chemical sciences and technologies to the government to assure a sound basis for policy decisions. Accordingly, the Board serves as the focal point within the National Research Council for concerns and issues effecting chemistry in its broadest sense. To function effectively, the BCST must undertake extensive planning for potential studies, carry out oversight of ongoing activities, engage in private-sector fund raising, and maintain a broad effort to communicate with the chemical sciences community. All of these are core activities, for which costs cannot be charged to specific projects and which therefore require core funding. The capacity to develop new projects, while paying costs partially or fully from core funds, greatly enhances the freedom and capacity of the BCST to act responsively and responsibly to important issues in the chemical sciences and technology.