Infrastructure

Criminologist Nancy La Vigne to Head U.S. National Institute of Justice
Announcements
May 10, 2022

Criminologist Nancy La Vigne to Head U.S. National Institute of Justice

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SSRC, NSF Team Up To Examine Impact of Public Health Guidance
Announcements
May 4, 2022

SSRC, NSF Team Up To Examine Impact of Public Health Guidance

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David Williams on ‘The Virus of Racism’ at OBSSR’s Annual Matilda White Riley Event
Event
May 3, 2022

David Williams on ‘The Virus of Racism’ at OBSSR’s Annual Matilda White Riley Event

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US Getting a Permanent Chief Statistician After Two-Year Gap
Announcements
April 29, 2022

US Getting a Permanent Chief Statistician After Two-Year Gap

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Biden White House Resurrects Social and Behavioral Science Advisory Panel

Biden White House Resurrects Social and Behavioral Science Advisory Panel

The White House announced last week that the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council will re-commission the Social and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee of the Committee on Science.

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SAGE Concept Grants: Open for Applications

SAGE Concept Grants: Open for Applications

SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is inviting applications for the 2022 SAGE Concept Grant, which provides funding for new software tools for social science research.

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Collateral Damage: Russia’s War Damages its Academic Ties with West

Collateral Damage: Russia’s War Damages its Academic Ties with West

Arik Burakovsky, an expert on relations between the U.S. and Russia, shines light on the future of cooperation between Russia and the West in the realm of higher education.

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Woody Powell to Lead Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Woody Powell to Lead Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Sociologist and organizational theory pioneer Walter W. “Woody” Powell will serve as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences as the center based at Stanford University continues to find a permanent replacement for Margaret Levi

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America’s DataHub Consortium: Seeing — and Understanding — the Entire Elephant

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.

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Purdue Science and Tech Scholar Fouché Heads NSF Social and Economic Sciences Division

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

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A How-To: Funding Opportunities for Minority-Serving Institutions at the NSF

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.

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What May Await Ukrainian Academics? Expect Exile, Harassment and Censorship

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.

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