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 […]
Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake
Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Ukraine-Focused Researchers at Risk Fellowships Program Receives Additional Funding
More money to help Ukrainian academics is being allocated to the Researchers at Risk Fellowship scheme in the United Kingdom.
Engineer and CASBS Alumnus Arati Prabhakar Tabbed to Head U.S. Science Policy Office
Engineer and applied physicist Arati Prabhakar – who previously headed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology — has been nominated to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Craig-Henderson Made Permanent Head of NSF’s Social and Behavioral Science Directorate
Psychologist Kellina Craig-Henderson, who has been serving as the acting head of the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, has been appointed as the permanent boss.
Open Letter: Action Steps for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Science, Research, and Innovation
The national science academies of the United States, the all-European academy and those of four separate European countries released, with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a short statement on rebuilding “a modern and globally integrated science and research system” in Ukraine.
Groundbreaking Archeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Wins Asturias Social Science Prize
Citing his “extraordinary intellectual rigor in reconstructing the civilizations of Mexico and Mesoamerica,” the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences has gone to Mexican archeologist and anthropologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma.
White House Stands up ARPA-H, Names Anthropologist Adam Russell to Lead Launch
The United States has formally established the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, as an independent entity within the National Institutes of Health. Anthropologist Adam H. Russell will head the new agency as acting deputy director
Criminologist Nancy La Vigne to Head U.S. National Institute of Justice
President Joe Biden has named criminologist Nancy La Vigne to head the National Institute of Justice, the arm of the U.S. Department […]
