Author: Social Science Space

Xavier’s Social Science College Loses Social Science in Name
International Debate
October 14, 2015

Xavier’s Social Science College Loses Social Science in Name

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Bridge-building Economist Angus Deaton Wins Nobel
Recognition
October 12, 2015

Bridge-building Economist Angus Deaton Wins Nobel

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Bill That Seeks ‘National Interest’ Justifications for NSF Grants Advances
Academic Funding
October 8, 2015

Bill That Seeks ‘National Interest’ Justifications for NSF Grants Advances

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How Adolescents See Adults Seeing Adolescents’ Texting
Research
October 6, 2015

How Adolescents See Adults Seeing Adolescents’ Texting

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Facing Ugly Truths: A Sense About Science Lecture

Facing Ugly Truths: A Sense About Science Lecture

Sense About Science’s Tracey Browne last week delivered ‘The Ugly Truth’ – an examination of “the need to encourage accountability and support scrutiny over research” to an audience of academics, researchers, policymakers and learned societies.

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Two Social Scientists Awarded ‘Genius Grants’

Two Social Scientists Awarded ‘Genius Grants’

Economist Heidi Williams and urban sociologist Matthew Desmond were among 24 academics and artists winning prestigious MacArthur grants today.

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National Science Board Seeks Nominations for Eight Seats

National Science Board Seeks Nominations for Eight Seats

With a third of the seats on the 24-member National Science Board opening next spring, the panel that oversees the U.S. National […]

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Obama Orders More Behavioral Science in Policy

Obama Orders More Behavioral Science in Policy

America’s own ‘nudge unit’ celebrates its first birthday with a report outlining the low-cost ways that applied social and behavioral research is improving government services, saving money and raising revenue.

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Honoring High Achievements in ‘Hypsographic Demography’

Honoring High Achievements in ‘Hypsographic Demography’

Two decades ago two curious scientists from very different fields wondered how many people live at various altitudes. Aided by federal funding, their inquiries have helped in area ranging from disaster preparedness to cancer research to fresher snack foods. Now the duo have been honored with a Golden Goose Award.

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Federal ‘Common Rule’ on Human Study Ethics Changing

Federal ‘Common Rule’ on Human Study Ethics Changing

Four years in the making, a proposed version of the federal ‘Common Rule’ for research on human subjects includes a full suite of social and behavioral science-influenced directives that past versions of the rule lacked.

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Japan’s Education Ministry Says to Axe Social Science and Humanities

Japan’s Education Ministry Says to Axe Social Science and Humanities

Citing an aging population and concerns about economic competitiveness, Japan’s education ministry offers a drastic solution for the national universities: Get rid of social science and humanities departments, and do it now.

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Free Research-Based Film Impacts 10,000 Viewers So Far

Free Research-Based Film Impacts 10,000 Viewers So Far

The medium of film itself opens doors to audiences that otherwise would never come across academic research, as the forces behind the online project RUFUS STONE’ will attest.

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