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...
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...
This three-year, $1.388 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research to develop integrated distribution models for approximately 100 North American mammal species. The grantee, Friends of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, will create continental scale species distribution models using traditional museum data integrated with new camera trap and citizen science data. This will allow for analysis of...
This $369,186 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to advance understanding of human perception, behavior and learning in museum environments. Using computational methods including 3D motion capture and machine learning, the Museum Associates organization will transform a LACMA gallery into a laboratory to study visitor interactions with artworks and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $748,624 to North Carolina State University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding will support research to develop integrated distribution models for approximately 100 North American mammal species. Researchers will combine traditional museum data with new camera trap and citizen science data, including from the National Ecological Observatory Network and Snapshot USA program....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $544,082 supports research to examine the structural barriers and facilitators for translating academic research to inform public policy. The study will elicit problem definitions and recommendations from decision-makers at public universities and research-funding philanthropies regarding how to improve the development of university-based infrastructure for research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) will fund a $499,999 research project at Arizona State University (ASU) to explore the dynamics of knowledge development and utilization in the field of biodiversity conservation. The project will compare the conservation knowledge referenced in Endangered Species Act recovery plans and delisting determinations to determine whether the "best available...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) in the amount of $200,282 provides funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research on understanding and overcoming impediments to high-risk, high-return science. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientists balance competing incentives and constraints when pursuing their research programs, with a focus on...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, with Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program number 47.075 for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, provides $350,000.00 in funding from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The award aims to develop a simulation tool to model the information ecosystem, specifically how content spreads and is consumed by people in a network. Using agent-based modeling techniques, the project incorporates features of information flow,...
The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $370,093 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to develop strategies for effective science communication using social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will fund a mixed-methods study examining how scientists have used Twitter and Reddit to interact with the public on COVID-19 topics and identify best practices for two-way online engagement. Researchers will analyze social media...