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 […]
Rebecca Blank Receives 2015 Moynihan Prize
A former acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the current chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive this year’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Probing the ‘Informed’ Voter: Philip Converse, 1928-2014
Philip Converse looked at the “informed voter” and questioned just what sort of information that voter really possessed, forever changing the assumptions behind political science research.
Roundtable Puts Social and Behavioral Research Back on Agenda
A roundtable sponsored by the U.S. National Research Council will examine applications of social and behavioral science.
NSF Funding Increases Under ‘Cromnibus’ Bill
UPDATED: With all eyes focused on not shutting down the U.S. government, the contentious issue of funding the NSF in the 2015 fiscal year may end with a (pleasing) whimper.
Science Career Survey Question in Peril
UPDATED: The National Science Board hopes it can muster support to save a question in the annual American Community Survey that tells us how many undergrads are taking science and research degrees. And a suite of questions on marriage trends is also facing the ax.
NSF Changes Guidelines for Informative Titles, Abstracts
UPDATED: Amidst calls by politicians for greater transparency in how the National Science Foundation arrives at grant decisions, the federal agency institutes new guidelines for more accessible descriptions of projects.
Leiden Statement Emphasizes Importance of Social Science, Humanities
A network of coalitions of research universities from around the world have come out with a strong statement stressing the importance of social science and humanities in the academy and among policymakers.
Ed Sociologist Pedro Noguera Awarded
Sociologist and education rights activist Pedro Noguera has received a second annual award that recognizes outstanding achievement in advancing the understanding of the behavioral and social sciences.
