The National Science Foundation awarded a $128,247 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will support research on "U.S. Institutions After COVID-19: Trust, Accountability, and Public Perceptions" from December 2021 through November 2023. As the prime awardee, Harvard University will examine how the pandemic has impacted trust and accountability in major U.S. institutions, and shape public...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) grant award of $121,154 to Northeastern University provides funding for a collaborative research project titled "Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science." The project aims to investigate the causes and mechanisms underlying the decline in public trust in science, with a focus on addressing both fact-level misinformation and broader trust-level threats...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Rutgers, The State University located in Piscataway, New Jersey. The 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, will support research to expand randomization-based causal inference methodology for complex blocked and multisite randomized control trials commonly used in the social and behavioral sciences. The project aims to develop novel techniques...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $199,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 to complete the project by April 30, 2025. The grant will fund research exploring the role of adaptive capacity on democratic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the university will conduct case studies in Atlanta, GA, Montreal, Canada, Manchester, UK, and Warsaw,...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $455,481 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will enable ethical analysis, public engagement, and public justification in state-level pandemic responses in the United States from September 2021 through August 2023. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences,...
Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $266,853 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research from March 2021 through August 2024 titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTEXT DEPENDENCE ACROSS CATEGORIES: BRIDGING DEVELOPMENTAL, EXPERIMENTAL, AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES." The research aims to contribute to scientific understanding of how context influences...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $237,214 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on September 1, 2021 for the project "Tracing Human Response to Environmental Variability." The grant supports research through August 31, 2025 to contribute to understanding how people respond behaviorally and economically to environmental changes. A sub-award of $TBD was provided to the Weizmann Institute of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,999 Project Grant to North Carolina State University on May 15, 2021 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research on imprecise probability and valid statistical inference through April 30, 2024. As part of this effort, Rutgers, The State University will receive a sub-award to contribute to the project. The overarching goal of the NSF program is to promote basic research and education in the...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a $100,548 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to support the project "RAPID: AGENDA GENERALITY AND BEHAVIOR IN SOCIAL NETWORK INTERACTIONS ABOUT COVID-19." The funding will support research examining agenda setting and behavior in social media discussions about COVID-19 through October 31, 2022. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075),...