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 […]
Purdue Science and Tech Scholar Fouché Heads NSF Social and Economic Sciences Division
and a science and technologies studies scholar whose high-profile work often looks at the connection of sport and technology, has taken the reins of the National Science Foundation’s Social and Economic Sciences Division
As U.S. Appropriations Bill Nears Passage, NSF Expecting 4 Percent Increase in 2022 Budget
As the U.S. Congress nears passage of its fiscal year 2022 spending plan six months behind schedule, it appears the premiere funder […]
New Statement Supports Academic Inquiry by Actors Both On and Off Campus
More than 90 organizations based in higher education, ranging from the American Council on Education and American Association of University Professors to the Yes We Must Coalition and EDUCAUSE, have signed a statement supporting “academic inquiry and debate” on American campuses.
University of Oregon Promised $425M to Create Behavioral Health Institute
Connie and Steve Ballmer, co-founders of Ballmer Group Philanthropy, have promised $425 million to the University of Oregon to create The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health in Portland.
WHO’s New Pandemic Advisory Body Urged to Tap Into Social And Behavioral Science
An open letter from World Health Organization experts urges another WHO body to use use social and behavioral science “to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”
Talking With Bennie Kara, Winner of the First SAGE Social Justice Book Award
As a student, recalls Bennie Kara, school was a haven. And that haven beckoned to her as she mapped out her career […]
Alondra Nelson Tabbed to Serve as Acting Head of OSTP
On Wednesday, President Joseph Biden handed sociologist Alondra Nelson interim leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Nelson currently serves as OSTP’s deputy director for science and society
NSF Grant Aims to Create Interoperable Standards for Social and Behavioral Data
The National Science Foundation in committing $38 million to establish a new platform to wrangle the ever-increasing amount of social and behavioral […]
