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 […]
Kellina Craig-Henderson, Head of the NSF’s Social Science Directorate, Dies
Social psychologist Kellina “Kelli” M. Craig-Henderson, 56, who headed the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation, has died,
Loet Leydesdorff, 1948-2023: Tackling the Thickets of Innovation and Scientometrics
Loet Leydesdorff, a sociologist and communications scholar who found academic fame for his work in developing scientometrics and the “triple helix” model of innovation, has died.
Rebecca Blank, 1955-2023: Economist Devoted To Academia And Public Service
Rebecca “Becky” Blank, an economist and administrator whose career spanned academe and the policy world, died of pancreatic cancer February 17 near Madison, Wisconsin. She was 67.
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-2022: The Father of Humanistic Geography
Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of geography, died August 10 at the age of 91.
Bruno Latour, 1947-2022: France’s Least Understood Philosopher
Bruno Latour, “France’s most famous and least understood philosopher,” died of pancreatic cancer in Paris on October 9, 2022. He was 75.
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.
Barney Glaser, 1930-2022: The Guardian of Grounded Theory
Sociologist Barney G. Glaser, who co-discovered the qualitative methodology known as grounded theory, has died at age 91.
Albert Bandura, 1925-2021: The Social Psychologist Who Transformed How We Think of Learning and Morality
Albert Bandura, a renowned social cognitive psychologist most well-known for his Bobo doll experiments studying aggression, died on July 26 at the age of 95.
