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 […]
America’s DataHub Consortium: Seeing — and Understanding — the Entire Elephant
We live in the information age. So where are all the answers? A new data science consortium led by NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics wants to reveal the answers and evidence hidden in a sea of federally compartmentalized data.
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
A How-To: Funding Opportunities for Minority-Serving Institutions at the NSF
The U.S. National Science Foundation has many programs designed to support researchers at minority-serving institutions and broaden participation of outstanding researchers from across a diverse group of regions, institutions and demographic groups. Here’s some tips on accessing those options.
What May Await Ukrainian Academics? Expect Exile, Harassment and Censorship
The full extent of the damage on scholars and research from Ukraine will not be known for some time, but predictions are grim.
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.
An Invisible Bias with Real Implications for Women Leaders
The underrepresentation of women in senior leadership positions across all sectors is clearly not a pipeline issue. Research points to bias as one reason they aren’t getting ahead.
Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’
“The Future of Computational Science is Black” is a series of blogs about SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021, the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science held at a historically Black college or university.
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.
