Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
DBASSE Advisory Committee Gets Three New Members
Three new members have been appointed to the 19-strong committee advising the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Helping Unemployed People Into Work is a Social and Economic Good
Marc Cowling and Ondřej Dvouletý reflect on their article, “UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs,” which was […]
A Geographical Approach for Collaboration and Connection?
Aled Singleton shows how groups of people harnessed psychogeography through digital technologies in 2021 and 2022, potentially opening team projects across different places.
Report Finds More U.S. Students Leaving Higher Ed Without a Credential
The population of ‘some college, no credential,’ or SCNC, individuals in the United States has reached 40.4 million (out of a total U.S. population of 331 million), which has resulted in a nationwide push for former students to return to college.
Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth: Lessons Drawn From the Chinese Experience
Wealth concentration is a widespread global problem. However, there is few researches exploring how political power structures impact the concentration of family wealth, especially the relationship between de jure and de facto political power. Therefore, this has motivated us to pursue this research.
Event: Refugee Expert Talks at Data Science For Public Good Series
Seema Iyer, senior director of The Hive, an Innovation Lab at USA for the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees, will keynote the next talk in the University of Virginia’s Data Science For The Public Good Distinguished Speaker Series.
Event: NASEM’s Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture
Tasseli McKay, a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University, will deliver the 2023 Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture.
Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology
Psychologist Shinobu Kitayama explores the cultural differences between Asia and America, the possible origins of those differences, and how the brain and body may reflect those differences.
