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 […]
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.
Latest Defense Department Minerva Grants Look at AI, Misinformation, Climate
The Pentagon’s Minerva Research Initiative has funded six social science projects under its Defense Education and Civilian University Research banner.
President Biden’s 2024 Budget Request Calls for 18.6 Percent Increase in NSF Budget
Although it’s purely aspirational at best, the Biden administration is seeking an 18.6 percent increase in the budget for the National Science Foundation, the United States’ largest funder of academic social science research.
Sociologist Alondra Nelson Leaving No. 2 Post at OSTP
Sociologist Alondra Nelson, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the most senior adviser on social science in the Biden administration, will resign her post effective February 10.
