---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19011"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19011"
heading: "Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program update"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19011"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part C — Broadening Participation"
---

# §19011. Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program update

- (a) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of Congress that over the next five years the [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) should increase the number of scholarships awarded under the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program established under [section 1862n–1 of this title](/usc/42/1862n–1.md) by 50 percent.
- (b) **Outreach—** To increase the diversity of participants, the [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall support symposia, forums, conferences, and other activities to expand and enhance outreach to—
  - (1) historically Black colleges and universities;
  - (2) Tribal Colleges or Universities;
  - (3) [minority-serving institutions](/usc/42/18901.md?p=19);
  - (4) institutions of higher education that are located near or serve rural communities, including [EPSCoR institutions](/usc/42/18901.md?p=8);
  - (5) [labor organizations](/usc/42/18901.md?p=15);
  - (6) [emerging research institutions](/usc/42/18901.md?p=5); and
  - (7) higher education programs that serve or support veterans.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10322, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1538.)