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 […]
CNSTAT Report Emphasizes the Need for a National Data Infrastructure
In the recent report, “Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good,” by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the importance of national data infrastructure is emphasized.
Culturally Adapting Therapy May Provide Insights, But Further Research Needed
How should therapists adapt their approaches for people of different cultures, including for racial and ethnic minority groups?
Arati Prabhakar Named as Lead of White House’s OSTP
Engineer Arati Prabhakar was confirmed by the Senate to lead to White House’s Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) on September 20.
Watch the Webinar: What’s the Role of Higher Ed in Supporting Intellectual Freedom?
The webinar “What’s the role of the Higher Ed community in supporting intellectual freedom?” — held as part of Banned Books Week — brought together academics to examine these issues.
Encounters with (Constitutional) Monarchy
Robert Dingwall notes he never met the late Queen Elizabeth. He did, however, once try to bar Charles’s entry to the Cambridge Union Debating Society…
Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake
Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Doing Decolonizing
Business schools and universities across the world are being swept up by a diversified array of decolonizing movements in response to the […]
Sharon Oster, 1949-2022: Pioneer in Equality in Economics
Sharon Oster, “a pioneer in the field of organizational strategy” and the first woman to be named dean and tenured professor at Yale University’s School of Management, died of lung cancer on June 10.
