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 […]
Stories of Research to Reality: Deborah Rupp
The scientific study of fairness in the workplace engages Purdue’s Deborah Rupp. Hear her explain her cutting-edge social science work, its applications to the real world, and why we should fund such work.
COMPETES Bill That Halves Social Science Budget Passes House
Republican-penned legislation that among other things cuts in half National Science Foundation funding for social science research passed the House of Representatives today.
Noose Narrows on NSF Social Science Funding
Options for changing legislation that would almost halve social science funding from the National Science Foundation are narrowing.
Taliban Kills Social Scientist in Hotel Attack
Paula Kantor, an American social scientist working to improve the lot of women and children in Afghanistan, was among 13 civilians killed Thursday in an attack on a guesthouse in Kabul.
NSF Cites Mixed Messages in Current COMPETES Bill
The National science Foundation sees a number of contradictions in the funding reauthorization bill known as America COMPETES that it reckons would reduce the nation’s competitiveness.
NSF’s Social Science Funding Almost Cut in Half in Draft Bill
A new version of landmark legislation that has defined science research spending by the U.S. government for almost a decade has been released, and social science spending is — as expected — is in the crosshairs.
Democracy’s Statistician: Janet L. Norwood, 1923-2015
Unflappable and nonpartisan, the late economist Janet Norwood blazed a path as a pioneering female statistician and bureaucrat who served multiple presidents as the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Preserving SBE Funding — A No-Brainer?
Social and behavioral science doesn’t get near the respect on Capitol Hill that sciences looking at the physical brain receive. A recent hearing suggests that spotlight on neuroscience might yet reflect positively on its unloved cousin.
