The National Science Foundation awarded a $322,101 project grant to Boston College under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN REMOTE WORK" from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024. This grant will fund research into continuity and change in remote work as workplace practices have shifted significantly with the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences...
Trustees of Boston College received a $299,860 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on January 1, 2022 for collaborative research titled "Probabilistic, Geometric, and Topological Analysis of Neural Networks, from Theory to Applications." The research is being conducted under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance understanding of major problems in these scientific fields and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $259,129 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Trustees of Boston College. The grant supports a research project entitled "Collaborative Research: Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science". The project aims to advance theory and knowledge about enhancing the public value of scientific findings and scientific communities, and to offer...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research examining the development of cooperative norms and behaviors in childhood. The $214,408 award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, will fund a series of longitudinal behavioral studies, computational modeling, and motor movement tracking to investigate how internal motives, in addition to external factors,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Trustees of Boston University a $449,985 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant period is from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 and will support the development of new coevolving latent space network with attractors models to study social dynamics. Specifically, the awardee will develop modeling and statistical inference methodologies for this new class of...
This $595,183 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project that examines the factors influencing the spread and persistence of dynamic social norms. The project investigates attributes like trend longevity, universality, shared cause, and sufficiency that can encourage individuals to adopt emerging social behaviors and beliefs, particularly in the context of addressing societal...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $187,180 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research examining the relative roles of ecology, evolution, and experience in solving novel problems under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $447,116 supports research into network formation and function within and between cultural groups from 2023 to 2025. Funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant to Trustees of Boston University will study the development of social relationships between culturally distinct populations and how individuals leverage relationships to access supportive resources. Using multilevel network models...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded North Carolina Central University a $243,709 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support collaborative research from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025 examining the role of elites, organizations, and movements in reshaping politics and policymaking. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific foundation...
Boston College was awarded a $542,820 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to acquire a cryoprobe-enabled nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer. The spectrometer will enhance efficiency and sensitivity in chemical and biological research by allowing researchers to obtain high-resolution NMR data using smaller sample volumes. It will expand the university's capabilities for investigating complex...