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 […]
SSRC, NSF Team Up To Examine Impact of Public Health Guidance
In a new initiative with an initial $20 million budget, the U.S. National Science Foundation is partnering with the Social Science Research Council to identify and support science research into public health guidance and its impact.
David Williams on ‘The Virus of Racism’ at OBSSR’s Annual Matilda White Riley Event
Sociologist David R. Williams will address “The Virus of Racism” for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research annual celebration of the legacy of Matilda White Riley.
US Getting a Permanent Chief Statistician After Two-Year Gap
Karin Orvis, an organizational psychologist who currently heads the Pentagon’s suicide prevention office, has been named the chief statistician of the United States, filling the role on a permanent basis for the first time since 2019.
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.
