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 […]
Economist Kaye Husbands Fealing to Lead NSF’s Social Science Directorate
Kaye Husbands Fealing, an economist who has done pioneering work in the “science of broadening participation,” has been named the new leader of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
Jane M. Simoni Named New Head of OBSSR
Clinical psychologist Jane M. Simoni has been named to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
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.
Federal Health and Human Services Department Names Research Integrity Head
After a two-year vacancy, the United States Office of Research Integrity has named a permanent director. Sheila Garrity.
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 […]
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
Institute for Advanced Study Draws from Humanities for New Director
Earlier this month, David Nirenberg — a professor of medieval history who had been dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago — became the the director of the Institute for Advanced Study to come from the humanities.
Engineer and Psychologist Carlotta Arthur to Head DBASSE
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.
