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 […]
Riley to Retire from NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
William T. Riley, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, announced he would retire at the end of December
NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust
A new blue-ribbon council convened by the United States’ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aims to tackle questions about nettlesome issues like conflict of interest, measuring impact and handling retractions.
Two Social Scientists Named to U.S. President’s Science Council
Thirty new members, including two social scientists, have been named to the science advisory body that is officially tasked with giving counsel […]
Event: ‘Frozen Out? Political Science in a Heating World’
University of Melbourne deliver a talk titled “Frozen Out? Political Science in a Heating World.”
Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago
A few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.
Webinar Series: Building Successful Academic Pathway Programs – Watch the Full Series
This one-hour webinar, “Positioning Underrepresented Minority Students for College: Best Practices of Precollegiate Pathway Programs,” will kick of a series of three conversations with Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason.
DBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National Research Council’s […]
Librarian Pilots the Path Linking Open Scholarship and Impact
The Association of Research Libraries has named North Carolina State open knowledge librarian to head a pilot program, Accelerating the Social Impact of Research.
