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 […]
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-2022: The Father of Humanistic Geography
Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of geography, died August 10 at the age of 91.
Event: 2022 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival
The 2022 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival will take place on Dec. 8-9, 2022, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. EST each day. Held by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR-CC), the Festival seeks to inform the community about the latest BSSR funded by the NIH and its impact.
The We Society Explores Intersectionality and Single Motherhood
In a recently released episode of The We Society podcast, Ann Phoenix, a psychologist at University College London’s Institute of Education, spoke […]
NSF Announces Analytics for Equity Initiative
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the Analytics for Equity Initiative for social, economic and behavioral sciences research which examines equity-related topics for public benefit via federal data and scientific advances.
Watch the Video: Improving Academic-Government Collaboration in Evidence-Based Policymaking
“We’ve seen trust fail in many ways, especially across sectors,” said political scientist Jake Bowers in a recent online event, hosted by […]
Event: NSF Hosts SBE Advisory Committee Meeting
The Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate is hosting its committee meeting on December 15 from 1-5 pm and December 16 from 12-4pm.
Report Provides Recommendations for Data Instruction in the Social Sciences
In the Ithaka S+R report “Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences,” authored by Dylan Ruediger and Danielle Miriam Cooper, examined the use and teaching of data analysis in the social sciences. Ithaka S+R is the research arm of the ITHAKA not-for-profit which aims to help “the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
Watch the Video: 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award Distinguished Lecture
The 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award, the nation’s highest honor for early career scientists and engineers bestowed by the U.S. National Science Foundation., was awarded to Daniel Larremore of the University of Colorado. Larremore is is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute.
