Project Grant 2028469

The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $370,093 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to develop strategies for effective science communication using social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will fund a mixed-methods study examining how scientists have used Twitter and Reddit to interact with the public on COVID-19 topics and identify best practices for two-way online engagement. Researchers will analyze social media...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $375,000 to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct a community-engaged study examining the role of social media influencers in addressing vaccine information integrity and vaccine hesitancy. The project will leverage social listening tools to analyze emerging narratives about a new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine on social media. NORC will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,039 to the University of Colorado to conduct a longitudinal study on the emotional adjustment and psychological health of diverse emerging adult students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to use remote-based surveys and experience-sampling methods to examine how social isolation, emotion regulation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $399,998 to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct a multi-method study examining the development of political attitudes, behaviors, and identities among demographically diverse young adults during the 2024 election season. The study consists of four key components: Online surveys of approximately 2,000 young adults ages 18-34 to assess changes in their...

The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program awarded $199,516 to The George Washington University under a Project Grant titled "Pandemic Communication in Time of Populism: Building Resilient Media and Ensuring Effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies." The two-year project, running from May 2022 to April 2024, will conduct the first comprehensive comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $791,988.00 to Innovation Research And Training, Inc. (IRT) to conduct a longitudinal study examining sexual health and media use trajectories of community college students across emerging adulthood. The study aims to: 1) explore sexual health and quality of life outcomes among this underserved...

The federal Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, valued at $5,393,812, supports a longitudinal study investigating the impact of changes in social determinants of health (SDOH) on the mental health of adolescents and young adults (AYA) in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is funded through the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) administered by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study...

This Project Grant award of $117,071 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to study the science of risk-taking and decision-making among adolescents and young adults regarding brain injury risks, such as concussion. The research aims to develop a data-driven framework for understanding how young people assess the risks of brain injury and how that impacts their behavior and future goals. The project utilizes...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant award of $234,489 supports collaborative research at New York University (NYU) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The primary objectives are to: Conduct a series of experiments to understand how people form subjective causal models based on observed data patterns, and how these models may be influenced by preconceptions triggered by natural contexts. This will provide insights into how economic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $199,097 to fund a comparative research study investigating how participatory science can help counteract the crisis of trust in public health and medical expertise. The research will document the dynamics of disease advocacy, contestation, and cross-country collaboration, and develop an analytical framework to identify factors shaping the...