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 […]
Language Expert Janet Werker Awarded SHHRC Impact Gold
Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council on Monday awarded five academics for their impactful research in a variety of key current issues, including language acquisition, refugees, water policy, homelessness and government surveillance.
Prewitt: Good Science Will Always Find Its Use
In receiving the SAGE-CASBS Award, Ken Prewitt, a champion for scholarly knowledge, suggests there is no applied or basic science, only science in use and science soon to be used.
Statistical Champion Ken Prewitt Awarded by SAGE-CASBS
The former Census director and president of the Social Science Research Council will be honored at the 2015 Behavioral & Social Science Summit at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Deaton’s Victory for Applied Economics, Statisticians
Angus Deaton’s work is a model of what applied economics ought to be, says Ian Preston. No award the Nobel committee has made has pleased the author as much, for the recognition it gives both Deaton and the type of work he does.
Xavier’s Social Science College Loses Social Science in Name
Xavier University, a venerable Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio serving more than 6,500 students, has renamed its existing College of Social Sciences, […]
How Data Empowered the Individual (and Won a Nobel)
Angus Deaton called for the applied microeconomists not to abandon economic theory in favor of experiments but instead to think more deeply about the consequences of economic theories and how they can be tested using real-world data. This is the approach he has followed throughout his career and what has led to him win a Nobel Prize.
Bridge-building Economist Angus Deaton Wins Nobel
The Nobel committee has awarded Princeton’s Angus Deaton ‘for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.’ But in fact, he was awarded for building bridges – between disciplines, between theory and reality, between people.
Two Social Scientists Awarded ‘Genius Grants’
Economist Heidi Williams and urban sociologist Matthew Desmond were among 24 academics and artists winning prestigious MacArthur grants today.
