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 […]
Preserving SBE Funding — A No-Brainer?
Social and behavioral science doesn’t get near the respect on Capitol Hill that sciences looking at the physical brain receive. A recent hearing suggests that spotlight on neuroscience might yet reflect positively on its unloved cousin.
Washington Update: SBE Vacancies, No Clarity From Midterms
NSF’s SBE Directorate Seeks to Fill Numerous Leadership Posts The Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation […]
Tirole Win Continues NSF/SBE Win Streak
The latest winner of the Nobel in economics saw the National Science Foundation support his formative work, just as it has for every winner since 1998.
Congressional Elections Have Consequences for Social Science
Opposition to the social, behavioral and economic sciences isn’t new. Here, Howard J. Silver recounts an attempt after the 1994 ‘Republican Revolution’ to demolish the National Science Foundation’s SBE directorate.
The Importance of NSF’s SBE Directorate and a Fond Farewell to its First Leader
A seminal figure in solidifying the importance and position of the social and behavioral sciences in the federal research infrastructure, sociologist Cora Marrett leaves the National Science Foundation next month.
Whither, or Wither, Social Science at the NSF?
UPDATED: After last week’s flurry of activity in the House and with the Senate weighing in this week, where does social science stand in regard to continued U.S. government spending? The warning signs are more concerning than the current status.
Largest-Ever NSF Budget Passes First Test
With no controversy and the only discussion about how best to honor the retiring chairman of the panel, the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that oversees the unlikely bedfellows of justice, commerce and scientific agencies has approved a $7.4 billion budget for the National Science Foundation.
UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle
A bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government spends on social science research advanced after passing in a House of Representatives subcommittee on a party-line vote this morning.
