The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $200,064 Project Grant to Stony Brook University for research titled "EAGER: SAI: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEHAVIORAL THEORIES FOR RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The two-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support Stony Brook University's research into developing behavioral theories to enhance the resilience and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded New York University a $210,805 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award, made on August 15, 2021 and running through July 31, 2024, will fund the "HNDS-R COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEASURING BELIEF DISTORTIONS TO IMPROVE PREDICTIVE OUTCOMES" project. This research aims to contribute to scientific understanding and welfare by promoting basic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant, with the CFDA program number 47.075, provides $120,000 in funding to George Mason University to conduct interdisciplinary research on securing off-premise digital services in the presence of strategic incentives. The project aims to analyze the well-functioning of cyberinfrastructure when dealing with incentive issues in cloud and decentralized computing models, in order to enable a more diversified and...
The National Science Foundation awarded New York University a $542,431 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from May 2021 to April 2024 to develop secure and trustworthy cyberphysical microfluidic systems. As part of its mission to support computing and information sciences research and education, the program aims to advance cyberinfrastructure and accelerate discovery. New York University will leverage...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded New York University a $545,000 Project Grant from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This funding supports collaborative research on agent-based modeling at the boundary of law and software. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and information sciences research and education. This...
This $195,213 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Southern California's investigation of misinformation beliefs expressed and spread online from September 2021 through August 2022. A sub-award of $TBD will support related research efforts at the University of California, Los Angeles. The goal of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program is to support basic research that contributes to...
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 Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $135,965 Project Grant to the University of Washington for conceptualizing interorganizational processes supporting interdependent lifeline infrastructure recovery. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), this collaborative research aims to contribute to understanding how to coordinate recovery of critical infrastructure systems following disruptions. The two-year...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $341k project grant to Northeastern University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "Making Security Work: Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDPs) and the Organizational Foundations of Cybersecurity." The two-year project examines how organizations adopt and sustain vulnerability disclosure programs to crowdsource security work from independent researchers. Through qualitative and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $254,000 project grant to the University of California, San Diego for research titled "TOPICS IN INFORMATION ECONOMICS: DECEPTION, DAMAGE, AND PRIVACY" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant is part of 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. Under the award, UC San...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded New York University a $309,890 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct research from September 2021 through August 2023 titled "EAGER: SAI: UNDERSTANDING MISPERCEPTIONS OF CYBER RISKS TO MODEL AND SECURE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES." The grant will fund research to contribute to understanding and monitoring resources invested in science through the promotion of basic research in social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the university will use the funding to analyze misperceptions of cyber risks to transportation infrastructures in order to model and help secure those systems. The research appears aligned with the grant program's goals of strengthening the nation's science base in these fields.