The Columbia University was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to be completed by September 30, 2022. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and cyberinfrastructure development. Specifically, the Columbia University will conduct...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $123,115 awarded on March 15, 2022 will fund research into the value of consumer data for digital platforms. The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) through February 2029 at Columbia University. Specifically, the research will investigate how the value of an individual consumer's data record is determined for an intermediary that uses it, such as an e-commerce platform's transaction...
This $190,737 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on the security and privacy implications of remote proctoring services for educational policies and practices. Funded under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), this 24-month award to Georgetown University will advance knowledge in pedagogy and usable security/privacy. Specifically, the multi-pronged research effort will examine how online proctoring technologies impact...
This three-year, $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, operating under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop tools to analyze process data from computer-based educational assessments and adaptive designs for testing and learning. The Columbia University researchers will focus on statistical learning methods to understand students' cognitive processes using log file data...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $100,000 Project Grant award 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 award will support research from June 2023 to May 2026 to address concerns about privacy risks from personal information sharing on social media, especially for low-income and underrepresented groups. The university will study how socioeconomic status...
This $240,900 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of educational resources for the ethical use of pervasive data. The research team at the University of Colorado Boulder will survey and interview current computing students and junior researchers to identify current practices, challenges, and opportunities for developing ethics training to address issues related to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to construct a large individual-level dataset of U.S. college students over the past century. The investigators will digitize historical college rosters from the early 1900s to 1950s and link this data to U.S. population censuses to observe students' socioeconomic backgrounds and long-term adult...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) grant for $184,260 awarded to Barnard College supports a research project titled "Beyond App-Centric Privacy: Investigating Privacy Ecosystems Among Vulnerable Populations." The project aims to characterize the privacy risks and management strategies experienced by vulnerable individuals in the healthcare context, going beyond the traditional app-centric view of privacy. Through qualitative...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $100,000 to Northeastern University provides funding for a 3-year collaborative research project titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: Empathy-Based Privacy Education and Design Through Synthetic Persona Data Generation." The project aims to develop new frameworks and tools to enhance privacy education and design through the use of AI-generated synthetic...
Columbia University was awarded a $371,187 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The grant will support collaborative research to map the materiality of past human responses to climate change through archaeological, ethnohistorical, and paleoclimate data collected over three field seasons with stakeholder communities. The project aims to clarify the impacts...