Project Grant 2104614
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $246,455 will fund research examining socio-technical practices governing the design, manufacture, and distribution of emerging digital technologies. Specifically, the two-year award to the University of Massachusetts will support multi-sited ethnographic research and analyses exploring how entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and investors are actively building and circulating...
- This $349,993 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will advance the methodology and practical implementation of adaptive experiments. The 3-year project, which begins on September 1, 2024, will develop new statistical methods for sample size calculations and optimal treatment assignment in adaptive settings, establish a comprehensive framework to guide applied researchers in designing adaptive...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $265,102 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. The grant supports collaborative research aimed at building empirically informed models to better understand factors driving or hindering scientific innovation and progress. The research combines theoretical and empirical studies, using a mixed-method approach that integrates...
- This $134,432 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to understand the factors that drive or hinder innovation, including the proliferation of scientific knowledge, funding incentives, pressure to publish, and challenges of remote collaboration. The project uses a mixed-method approach,...
- This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research on heterogeneous agent modeling of the personal data economy. With a performance period from August 2021 through July 2023, this award will support the development of models to analyze how individual behaviors and interactions shape markets involving the exchange of personal data. As part of its mission to advance the social and economic sciences, the NSF SBE...
- This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
- This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $174,128 to support a collaborative research project investigating the early emergence of tool use in human evolution. The research aims to understand the significance of tool technology in the human lineage, including the taxonomic identity of early toolmakers, the purposes of the tools, and the timeline for the development of this technology. The project...
- This $148,477 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project at Pennsylvania State University. The project explores how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, especially when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The research aims to clarify how these choices can unintentionally...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000 in funding to Arizona State University (ASU) to plan research on socio-technological systems and how they can be designed to better support human wellbeing and security. The project aims to analyze how current socio-technological systems contribute to risk, inequality, and insecurity, and develop approaches to envision and design future systems...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $148,000 Project Grant to evaluate competing models of human technological adaptation from Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Under this award, the grantee will evaluate competing models of how humans adapt technologically on both individual and societal levels to contribute new scientific insights in this area. The two-year period of performance and funding amount of $148k will allow for rigorous study and analysis to further the goals of the National Science Foundation's program to strengthen scientific knowledge of how humans and societies interact with technology over time.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $148.0k | 8/12/21 |