This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research to gather and analyze survey data on citizen perspectives regarding peace, security, and human rights in a post-conflict environment. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Massachusetts will field three public opinion surveys in a post-conflict country using random domain intercept technology to collect anonymous samples. The...
The University of Houston received a $219,839 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science on August 15, 2021 to support research concluding on July 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Specifically, the funding will...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $363,384 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant, awarded August 1, 2021 and concluding July 31, 2024, will support the Political Leaders Through Time research project. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to contribute to basic research and education in these fields...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $360,727 Project Grant to the University of Houston System to support collaborative research on international coercion, debt relief, and land transactions under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The two-year project beginning January 2021 aims to better understand how governments behave during financial crises, including whether they continue repaying loans or default. As part of the research, $XXX in sub-awards will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $503,918 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to Princeton University for the period of April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The grant supports collaborative research among Princeton University, Rutgers University, and Texas A&M University to study responses to complex disruptive events from a cognitive and socio-political context. Under the award, the researchers will conduct household surveys,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Southern Methodist University a $396,527 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund an analysis of fire suppression and increasing environmental variability on wildfire intensity from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2024. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program provides $309,983 to Texas A&M University Health Science Center from September 2021 through August 2025 for a paleodemographic and ancient DNA study of a potential epidemic site in Dallas, Texas. A subaward of $100,000 or less is also provided to the University of South Carolina to support related work on the project. The overarching goal of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $253,258 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate human-environment interactions in semi-arid landscapes. The project, titled "MCA: CONSILIENCE: ADVANCING FRONTIERS IN MODELING SOCIOECOLOGICAL MOSAICS FROM FIELD TO SATELLITE," will focus on understanding how local land management practices,...
This federal Project Grant award of $214,742 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Texas A&M University. The objective of this 10-month project is to evaluate how social safety net policies, including those providing child/family, health, and educational assistance, impact STEM entrepreneurship and innovation, particularly among underrepresented populations and underserved regions. The research will employ...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a three-year, $725,673 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research understanding task- and resting-state neural activation in relation to real-world social behavior through May 2024. As part of the SBE Sciences program, which supports basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences, this project aims to contribute insights on...