Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
