Project Grant 2223914
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $571,005 will fund research on the prevalence and effects of populist rhetoric on social media in democracies globally. Awarded on July 15, 2022 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant will support the creation of a large cross-national dataset on political communication by major democratic parties on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram across approximately 80 countries. Researchers at Washington...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,096 project grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the ENDURE research project examining the impact of restrictive COVID-19 pandemic response policies on economic, political, and social inequalities across 12 countries. The project employs comparative analyses to study how varying degrees of lockdown and demobilization policies in...
- The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $199,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 to complete the project by April 30, 2025. The grant will fund research exploring the role of adaptive capacity on democratic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the university will conduct case studies in Atlanta, GA, Montreal, Canada, Manchester, UK, and Warsaw,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $214,019 to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to measure the consistency of public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The key objectives are to: Analyze COVID-19 tweets from federal and state public health agencies to assess the relationship between message consistency and the prevalence of discordant information on social media. Conduct a nationally...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $1,999,074 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the project "PIPP PHASE I: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Messaging and Modeling during Pandemics." The goal of the project is to develop models and tools to help public health officials and policymakers more effectively communicate and respond during future pandemics. Specifically, the university...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $258,719 project grant to West Virginia University Research Corporation on May 15, 2021 for research titled "The Effects of Group Closure and Organizational Network Ties in Closed Populations During a Pandemic." The project will be completed by April 30, 2024. The award is being administered under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 project grant to Phoenix, Arizona to support research investigating the long-term impacts of pandemic disease. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant will fund research exploring the long-term societal and economic effects of pandemics. In line with the program's goals of...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $199,097 to fund a comparative research study investigating how participatory science can help counteract the crisis of trust in public health and medical expertise. The research will document the dynamics of disease advocacy, contestation, and cross-country collaboration, and develop an analytical framework to identify factors shaping the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $128,247 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will support research on "U.S. Institutions After COVID-19: Trust, Accountability, and Public Perceptions" from December 2021 through November 2023. As the prime awardee, Harvard University will examine how the pandemic has impacted trust and accountability in major U.S. institutions, and shape public...
- This $366,181 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and data collection activities at Penn State University from July 2022 to June 2024 under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grantee will collect extensive data on U.S. state policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyze the adoption and diffusion of pandemic policies, and track online discussions by state officials. This includes gathering information on hundreds of...
The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program awarded $199,516 to The George Washington University under a Project Grant titled "Pandemic Communication in Time of Populism: Building Resilient Media and Ensuring Effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies." The two-year project, running from May 2022 to April 2024, will conduct the first comprehensive comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the research will examine the impact of populism on four aspects of pandemic communication—government-led health crisis communication, media policy, media coverage, and public attitudes—in four countries led by populist leaders during the pandemic: Brazil, Poland, Serbia, and the United States. The project aims to inform recommendations for building more resilient media organizations better equipped to withstand challenges of future pandemics in divided societies.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $199.5k | 4/27/22 |