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 […]
Nominations Sought for US National Medal of Science Candidates
The National Science Foundation is is accepting nominations for the U.S. National Medal of Science until May 20 and a webinar on March 30 will provide tips for submitting nominations.
CASBS Names 36 Scholars to its Newest Class of Fellows
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University named its 2022-23 fellows class, comprising 36 scholars representing 17 U.S. institutions and 12 international institutions and programs.
Sheila Jasanoff Receives 2022 Holberg Prize
Sheila Sen Jasanoff, one of the world’s foremost theorists examining the interaction of science and technology with human society, has received the 2022 Holberg Prize,
UK’s Academy of Social Sciences Names 47 Fellows for Spring 2022
On March 1 Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences conferred fellowships on 47 social scientists selected through an independent peer review.
Talking With Bennie Kara, Winner of the First SAGE Social Justice Book Award
As a student, recalls Bennie Kara, school was a haven. And that haven beckoned to her as she mapped out her career […]
ESRC Early Career Honor Recognizes Researcher Examining Renewable Energy Policies
Rebecca Windemer, a lecturer at the University of the West of England who studies renewable energy amid the communities where it is generated, received the Economic and Social Research Council’s 2021 Celebrating Impact Prize for the Outstanding Early Career Impact.
Banaji, Jurafsky Receive NAS’s Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Prize for 2022
A psychologist whose work helped create our understanding or implicit bias and a linguist who helped us computationally model language have won the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences.
Participatory Peace-Building Program Wins ESRC Impact Prize
Improbable Dialogues, which works on peace-building initiatives in Colombia, was announced winner of the Outstanding Societal Impact award from the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2021.
