Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
UPDATED with COSSA analysis: Social and behavioral science funded by the U.S. government appears to have received an early Christmas present as leaders in the House of Representatives unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the federal enterprise funded in 2016.
Picking up where Tom Coburn left off, the new U.S. senator from Oklahoma has released a punny compendium of what he sees as wasteful federal spending , including the inevitable shots at social and behavioral science grants.
In February officials with the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Science Board trooped up […]
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has pushed a bill that deprecates federal research spending for social science to the Senate as a whole.
Social science’s raise in the White House’s proposed National Science Foundation budget raises some Republican eyebrows.
UPDATED: With all eyes focused on not shutting down the U.S. government, the contentious issue of funding the NSF in the 2015 fiscal year may end with a (pleasing) whimper.
UPDATED: The National Science Board hopes it can muster support to save a question in the annual American Community Survey that tells us how many undergrads are taking science and research degrees. And a suite of questions on marriage trends is also facing the ax.
UPDATED: Amidst calls by politicians for greater transparency in how the National Science Foundation arrives at grant decisions, the federal agency institutes new guidelines for more accessible descriptions of projects.