Project Grant 2033924

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $199,434 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support the project "RAPID: OPERATIONALIZING THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH IN THE CONTEXT OF DISASTER RESILIENCE: MEASURING THE SOCIAL BURDEN OF INFRASTRUCTURE DISRUPTIONS" from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support research to operationalize the Capabilities Approach framework...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $544,082 supports research to examine the structural barriers and facilitators for translating academic research to inform public policy. The study will elicit problem definitions and recommendations from decision-makers at public universities and research-funding philanthropies regarding how to improve the development of university-based infrastructure for research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $400,000 to William Marsh Rice University to investigate how and when scientists and technical experts have influenced national decisions related to science, technology, and innovation (STI), such as research security, science education, and public health. The research aims to develop new methods for identifying and measuring expert influence on STI...

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a planning project titled "PLANNING: CRISES: SCIENCE COMMUNICATION FOR RESILIENT ENVIRONMENTS AND SOCIETIES (SCORES)." The project aims to investigate how people judge threats and make decisions in response to environmental hazards, such as wildfires and landslides, in order to develop more effective science communication...

The Project Grant award of $378,893 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research program, will fund the integration of AI nowcasting models with digital communications to reduce respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in rural areas. The project aims to build and operationalize a tailored spatio-temporal AI model to accurately predict RSV infection rates and deliver timely, targeted health messaging through trusted community channels like...

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund an early career scientist's ethnographic research on social determinants of knowledge production. Under the sponsorship of researchers at Harvard University and Arizona State University, the grant recipient will conduct comparative multi-site ethnography across regional police departments and nonprofits. Through observations, document analysis, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) in the amount of $200,282 provides funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research on understanding and overcoming impediments to high-risk, high-return science. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientists balance competing incentives and constraints when pursuing their research programs, with a focus on...

This five-year, $260,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research at the University of Oklahoma examining transactive resilience in disaster-affected communities. The university will analyze relationships among non-profits, community groups, government agencies, and infrastructure to better understand how distributed networks can bolster disaster resilience through peer-to-peer interactions. The research also aims to...

This $299,862 National Science Foundation project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a decision support system to strengthen public health response to infectious disease outbreaks in the US and Australia. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia will collaborate to develop graph representation learning methods for fair teaming...

The Midwest Leadership in Education, Application, and Dissemination of Research on the Social Determinants of Health (LEADRS) Program, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361), delivers specialized training and professional development to nurse scientists and allied health researchers. This project grant award of $539,968, issued September 19, 2025, and concluding June 30, 2028, supports Indiana University Schools of Nursing and...