Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
NAS Outlines Successes of Societal Experts Action Network
SEAN, the Societal Experts Action Network, taps scientists in the social, behavioral and economic sciences to provide actionable and evidence-based recommendations to support local, state, and national responses and policies quickly.
October 14: Free Workshop Focuses on Social Science and University-Industry Collaboration
Academic social and behavioral science, when it looks outside of the ivory tower, often focuses on policy implications and thus government and […]
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.
