The National Science Foundation awarded Central Michigan University a $192,500 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2023. The grant supports collaborative research examining the role of false confessions in exoneration and compensation. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to strengthen basic scientific research and education in these fields as well as monitor science...
George Mason University was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal grant program "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences" (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research from March 2021 through February 2023 to develop just-in-time adaptive interventions for emotion regulation. The NSF program aims to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences, as well as monitor science investments, and this award...
This $585,775 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to investigate how categorical forensic decisions may contribute to wrongful convictions and identify ways to reduce their harm to the innocent. The 3-year project includes 5 laboratory experiments and a continuing legal education component designed for attorneys and judges. The research aims to (1) test whether categorical...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded George Mason University a $206,765 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the "EAGER: EQUITY IN SCIENTIFIC CO-PRODUCTION PROCESSES: CREATION OF A FRAMEWORK" project from July 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The project aims to create a framework for equitable co-production processes in scientific research. The Social, Behavioral, and...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to identify behavioral factors that generate suspicion and lead to false convictions. With total funding of $379,679, the grant supports research at Arizona State University to analyze 911 call data and examine how callers' demographics, behaviors, and language use initially spark suspicion from law enforcement. Through natural language processing and machine learning...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $297,178 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to Northeastern University on May 1, 2021 for research concluding on April 30, 2023. The grant supports the research project "Navigating Mainstream Institutions and Non-Traditional Alternatives Post-Incarceration." Northeastern University will examine challenges formerly incarcerated individuals face in accessing mainstream education and...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $253,029.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project that uses genomic and isotopic analyses to reconstruct long-term population histories and evaluate changes in mobility patterns over a period of three millennia. The research aims to advance scientific understanding of how individual and...
George Mason University received a $165,996 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RI: SMALL: NL(V)P: NATURAL LANGUAGE (VARIETY) PROCESSING" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The award was made under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science...
The University of Massachusetts at Hadley, MA was awarded a $399,987 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The grant funds research to understand law and legality in media. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts will conduct research examining how media shapes public understanding of law and perceptions of legality. This work will contribute insights on...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences has awarded a $140,000 Project Grant to George Mason University, doing business as Mason, to conduct collaborative research on the relationship between the skeletal and immune systems. The grant, which runs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025, is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The research project will examine immune and inflammatory proteins in bone as...