This $246,278 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a 3-year collaborative research project examining how living in a U.S.-Mexico border region shapes the experiences and adaptations of local residents to environmental changes such as shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns. The project, led by researchers at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), will utilize ethnographic...
This National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities project grant award of $399,445 provides funding for an undergraduate research experience program focused on immigration policy. Over a three-year period ending in August 2025, the New Mexico State University awardee will deliver a collaborative research program for ten undergraduate students per summer through a nine-week experience. Students will receive training in qualitative and quantitative research methods while...
This $155,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project examining how the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall has shaped the scientific practices and knowledge production of conservation biologists studying endangered species in the borderlands region. The project will utilize archival research and oral history interviews to investigate how the politicization of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $321,936 to Texas A&M University to investigate human adaptation and resilience in high-altitude archaeological sites. The project aims to determine how small-scale foraging societies persisted in challenging environments over thousands of years by analyzing detailed environmental and behavioral data from multiple sites. In addition to scholarly...
The National Science Foundation awarded $129,114 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Texas A&M University-San Antonio for a collaborative research project grant titled "Collaborative Research: Joint Paleontological and Archaeological Investigations of Modern Human Origins." The award period is from November 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Through this funding, the awardee will support an international team conducting field research at...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $268,939 to the University of South Florida to study how migrant communities establish durable settlements under uncertain timelines from 2022 to 2025. The award will support research using ethnographic methods like participant observation, interviews, and photo voice to analyze how demographic characteristics affect community incorporation experiences for migrants...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $108,757, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to San Diego State University Foundation. The award, effective August 15, 2024 through July 31, 2026, supports a collaborative research project that investigates changes in prehistoric human foraging, mobility patterns, and population dynamics in response to environmental change during the later Pleistocene. The research...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($405,515) supports research from March 2021 to February 2024 titled "NEW SPATIALLY EXPLICIT APPROACHES FOR ESTIMATING MALARIA PARASITE MIGRATION." The University of Maryland, College Park is developing new spatial modeling techniques to estimate the migration of malaria parasites. A subaward to the University of Maryland, Baltimore expands the research to surface spatially...
This $142,723 collaborative research project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will investigate how living in a border region shapes residents' everyday adaptations to environmental changes, such as shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns. The 36-month study, commencing on August 1, 2025, will be conducted by researchers at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the University of Delaware....
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $399,940 to Colorado State University for research titled "Adaptive Human Migration in Changing Environments." The university will leverage geographic sciences to develop new models of migration decision-making. Colorado State University will conduct fieldwork in Tanzania to collect household survey data and validate an agent-based migration model. Subawards...