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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.
The full extent of the damage on scholars and research from Ukraine will not be known for some time, but predictions are grim.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
A Canadian research team observed a profound ripple effect where reduced productivity from increased workload due to the pandemic impacted researchers’ progress.
The National Science Foundation in committing $38 million to establish a new platform to wrangle the ever-increasing amount of social […]
Making self-identification an everyday practice is one of trans activism’s most visible recent victories, particularly on campuses, and language is at the center of that change.
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real word datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health. In this post, the authors outline the opportunities and challenges of using real world data as part of the ‘Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice’ project.
Associate professor Siouxsie Wiles and professor Shaun Hendy have become well known for their work explaining the science behind COVID-19 and guiding the public and government response. Is their home institution doing enough to protect them from bad actors?
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.
