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Appendix A: Glossary
Pages 141-146

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... . Convergence is an approach to problem solving that integrates expertise from life sciences with physical, mathematical, and computational sciences, medicine, and engineering to form comprehensive synthetic frameworks that merge areas of knowledge from multiple fields to address specific challenges (NRC, 2014)
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... academic institutions granting research-based master's degrees or doctorates in science, engineering, and selected health fields as of fall of the survey year. The survey, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, collects the total number of graduate students, postdoctoral appointees, and doctorate-level nonfaculty researchers by demographic and other characteristic such as source of financial support.
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... , formerly the Division of Science Resources Statistics, was established within the National Science Foundation by Section 505 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. The name signals the central role of NCSES in the collection, interpretation, analysis, and dissemination of objective data on the science and engineering enterprise.
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... The SED is sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation and by five other federal agencies: the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, U.S.
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... . NSF/NIH (National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health)
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... 2016. Defining attributes and metrics of effective research mentoring relationships.
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