Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Canada’s Federation For Humanities and Social Sciences Welcomes New Board Members
Annie Pilote, dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval, was named chair of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at its 2023 virtual annual meeting last month. Members also elected Debra Thompson as a new director on the board.
Webinar: Engaging With Stakeholders – What Can We Learn from Action Researchers?
Research has more impact when those directly involved have a voice in the process. If you want to engage effectively with participants […]
DBASSE Advisory Committee Gets Three New Members
Three new members have been appointed to the 19-strong committee advising the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Event: Refugee Expert Talks at Data Science For Public Good Series
Seema Iyer, senior director of The Hive, an Innovation Lab at USA for the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees, will keynote the next talk in the University of Virginia’s Data Science For The Public Good Distinguished Speaker Series.
Event: NASEM’s Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture
Tasseli McKay, a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University, will deliver the 2023 Mark Kleiman Innovation for Public Policy Memorial Lecture.
Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book
Professor Paschal Anosike, author of the new book ‘Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa,’ has received the second Sage Social Justice Book Award.
Kellina Craig-Henderson, Head of the NSF’s Social Science Directorate, Dies
Social psychologist Kellina “Kelli” M. Craig-Henderson, 56, who headed the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation, has died,
Loet Leydesdorff, 1948-2023: Tackling the Thickets of Innovation and Scientometrics
Loet Leydesdorff, a sociologist and communications scholar who found academic fame for his work in developing scientometrics and the “triple helix” model of innovation, has died.
