This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $255,000 to the University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct a cross-field analysis of embedded social science research in the fields of genomics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The project involves interviewing researchers and research administrators to understand their perspectives on the value of integrating ethical and social science expertise into scientific...
The University of California, San Diego will receive $400,000 from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support the project "Ethical and Responsible Research in the Design of Sociotechnical Systems," which aims to contribute to basic research and education in the social, behavioral and...
This $111,984 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a collaborative research project focused on mapping the state of AI ethics education across diverse higher education institutions in the United States. The project aims to: (a) comprehensively survey current and planned AI ethics education interventions, (b) develop a framework to understand how faculty perceive and conceptualize AI ethics...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the California State University, East Bay Foundation, Inc. supports a collaborative research project examining cognitive and linguistic barriers to improving diversity in STEM fields. The $721,526 award over 3 years from September 2023 to August 2026 will fund 5 large-scale studies to investigate how generalization and generic language development affect science learning,...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $299,181 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Colorado to study the mechanisms that lead to a lack of diversity in computer science (CS) research subfields. The three-part study includes in-depth interviews, textual analysis of subfield discourse, and a large-scale survey to quantify participation of domestic racial minorities in CS subfields. The goal is to develop a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $282,477 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the collaborative research project "Generics in Context: Examining Mental Biases and Resources in Social and Science Communication and Learning." This 3-year project, which began on September 1, 2023, aims to generate new empirical findings on cognitive and linguistic barriers that impede diversifying STEM fields, as...
This $199,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports San Francisco State University's planning project titled "Shifting Perspectives about Why Women of Color are Underrepresented in Biology: The Role of Intersectional Identities." The University will conduct research to better understand why women of color majoring in biology often leave the field. A smartphone application will collect daily experience data from 600 women in...
This Project Grant award of $613,946 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a 12-year longitudinal study on the influence of climate, social networks, and cultural models on the retention of women and racially/ethnically marginalized engineers in graduate school and the workforce. The project follows approximately 2,100 engineering graduate students, professors, and industry professionals from 11 universities to understand the factors that impact...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $133,138 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funded the "VOICES OF INTEGRATING CULTURE IN THE EARTH SCIENCES" project from March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The project aimed to assess measures of identity, belonging, place, and security for workshop participants through surveys and interviews. San Francisco State University served as a sub-awardee to design the...
This $399,994 National Science Foundation project grant through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of California Santa Cruz from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The research aims to evaluate past efforts integrating initiatives focused on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion issues into science and engineering research projects in genomics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Through content analysis and case studies, the project will identify best practices to inform guidelines for integrating ELSI and DEI considerations into STEM research in an ethical, robust manner. A $25,000 subaward was provided to Columbia University to support qualitative research methods and social science expertise for interviews and data analysis in support of the aims. The overarching goal is to specify framework for collaborative ELSI and DEI integration to reformulate equitable, just science and create sustained policy and culture changes centering those priorities in STEM research.