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Engineer and psychologist Carlotta M. Arthur, currently director of the Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM, has been named the new executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at America’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Cst Philip E. Rubin, whose extensive resume includes leadership roles at the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, is the new president of the board of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is encouraging social and behavioral science researchers to take a short survey on how they approach research that makes an impact outside of academia. Results of the survey are for research purposes only will be reported publicly in a future white paper.
The many impacts the pandemic has had on children, adolescents, and adults, including those diagnosed with a mental illness before […]
In the wake of the pandemic of suspect “facts” shared about COVID-19, social and behavioral scientists from around the world […]
The British Academy, as part of its Thinkers for Our Time series of public talks, will examine the legacy of […]
American political scientist James C. Scott today receives the 2021 A.SK Social Science Award from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. The award, donated by Chinese entrepreneurs Angela and Shu Kai Chan, is one of the world’s largest awards in the social sciences
Every year since 2012 a collection of American science associations hand out Golden Goose Awards to federally funded science that […]
Academic social and behavioral science, when it looks outside of the ivory tower, often focuses on policy implications and thus […]
William T. Riley, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, announced he would retire at the end of December
A new blue-ribbon council convened by the United States’ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aims to tackle questions about nettlesome issues like conflict of interest, measuring impact and handling retractions.
Thirty new members, including two social scientists, have been named to the science advisory body that is officially tasked with […]
