Funding is provided by the The National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…” With an annual budget of about $6.9 billion (FY 2010), we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities.
The Ecosystem Ecology Workshops are a part of Impact on Science Education, a group of science education projects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn about similar projects and be the first to hear about upcoming opportunities for teacher education, free curriculum materials, and educational research findings at the Impact on Science Education website at http://impactscied.illinois.edu.
