Slide image: The NSF logo centered among images representing five NSF research areas:
Social & Behavioral Sciences (illustration showing the silhouette of a young child on hands and knees, surrounded by technological items, including a computer, video game controller and television)
Geological Sciences (photo of a breaking wave)
Engineering (photo showing how a fluorescent dye injected into a tank of stirred liquid creates a pattern that resembles a green apple)
Biological Sciences (illustration of a cross-section of a silhouetted human head showing the brain)
Mathematical Sciences (computer-generated image of E8 root system consisting of 240 vectors in an 8-dimensional space)

Credits (clockwise from top left): Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (logo); Digital Vision, Getty Images; M. M. Alvarez, T. Shinbrot, F. J. Muzzio, Center for Structured Organic Composites, Rutgers University; © 2007 JupiterImages Corporation; American Institute of Mathematics

Design by: Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation