Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

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Another program gives forty International Science and Technology Awards each year to foreign doctoral students studying science or engineering.

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"There are many occasions in which anonymity is a perfectly acceptable and, in fact, morally responsible form of behavior, and the protection of anonymity is a moral requirement, " said Rachelle Hollander, director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology Program, which funded the project.

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Guilherme Martins, a graduate student in the computer science and engineering program, agreed.

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Gates wants to see more funding for a National Science Foundation program for math, science and engineering graduates students, and he suggested that at the high school level, math and science teachers should be paid more.

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