Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Stephen Curry writes on the LSE Impact Blog that the growth of academic blogging is an important new outlet for demonstrating impact. […]
A new study from the University of Chicago suggests that traditional measures of prosperity are not the best gauges of overall well-being. […]
The National Science Foundation has recently funded a national synthesis center at the University of Maryland that will integrate, for the first […]
Stephen M. Walt writes on Foreign Policy about the role that academics should play in public discourse about major social issues, including […]
A recent paper in the journal Social Science and Medicine found a strong association between having a physician manage a hospital and […]
National geography-test scores released in the US last week – part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress – revealed that US […]
Duncan Watts writes in New Scientist that ‘common sense’ can help us make sense of human behaviour – but can also undermine […]
A report published by the UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-committee on behavioural change policy finds that ‘nudges’ and similar […]