This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $174,874 to Stanford University to develop a new methodology for distinguishing between research findings that can be generalized across populations, places, and time, and those that cannot be generalized. The research aims to advance statistical meta-analysis by creating estimators and classification tools to identify predictable (generalizable) and...
The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics awarded Stanford University $401,292 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022. The Project Grant funding will support research titled "A New Well-Being Metric in the Era of the Digital Economy" to develop metrics for assessing individual well-being considering the rise of digital technologies and their growing influence...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on inferring genetic admixture histories via mechanistic modeling in structured ancestral populations. The $240,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will support the fellow's research to develop a method for understanding the genealogical history of genetically admixed populations, with a focus on...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $226,427 project grant to the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. on August 15, 2021 for an archaeology project titled "An Archaeology of Industry and Inter-Ethnic Dynamics" with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The grant is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $253,029 to George Mason University to conduct research on human population genetics and movements over a 3-year period from April 2025 to March 2028. The project aims to reconstruct long-term population histories and evaluate changes in mobility patterns through genomic, paleogenomic, and isotopic analyses, informed by historical and archaeological...
This two-year $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support research into the genomic structure of founder events in the 17th century Chesapeake region. The grantee, located in Willington, Connecticut, will analyze DNA evidence to contribute new insights into the genetic origins and migration patterns of early European settlers in the Chesapeake Bay area. By furthering understanding of population genetics and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $190,663 Project Grant to Stanford University on July 15, 2021 for collaborative research titled "Origins of Serial Sovereign Default." The research is being conducted 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. The...
Colorado State University was awarded a $338,995 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 grant will fund the SBE-UKRI: Synthetic Genomics and Responsible Research and Innovation project from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The project aims to contribute to the scientific strength and welfare of the Nation through the promotion of basic research and...
This $477,734 National Science Foundation project grant supports the creation of a population-scale family tree dataset and related research by The University of Iowa from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research will link approximately 40 million individuals in crowd-sourced family trees to study how migration has influenced kinship networks over centuries. It will analyze how networks emerge, change, and disappear under different economic and demographic conditions. A sub-award of...
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...