Sentence examples for merit review process from inspiring English sources

That would make it an element of the merit review process.

Those requirements include telling NSF how to vet grant proposals under its so-called merit review process.

In a 9 April letter to a university president, for example, he emphasized that "the FIRST Act does not touch NSF's merit review process".

NSF officials are still evaluating whether to expand the CMMI pilot, one of seven experiments the agency ran last year that tinkered with the normal merit review process.

"For the merit review process, this was the high bar," says David Schimel, CEO of NEON Inc., a nonprofit consortium that will build the network.

Judy Gan, head of public and legislators affairs at NSF, says the arrangement "preserves the integrity of the merit review process".

"Its peer review and merit review processes have successfully identified and funded scientifically and societally relevant research and should be preserved," the bill declares.

"For the great majority of proposals, we will continue the traditional merit-review process," he said.

But starting in the late 1980s, earmarks to finance research projects and facilities also began showing up—a practice that most scientists believe subverted the merit-review process.

The additional words "tie 'worthy' directly to the merit-review process rather than putting it in the hands of Congress," explained a Democratic staffer on the committee.

"This legislative effort is very much connected to his effort to impose his own, political level of review on NSF's gold standard merit-review process".