This $562,092 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) funds research and data infrastructure development to support analysis of historical settlement and population growth patterns in the United States. The University of Colorado, Boulder will collaborate with the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota to develop gridded time series data on census tract-level variables related to...
This $1,600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will expand and enhance the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the world's largest population database. The project will: Obtain and preserve census and household survey data from 157 countries, focusing on the most recent census rounds. Clean, process, and consistently code the collected data. Develop comprehensive documentation to guide...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $999,996 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to develop products and services under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the "FROM STACKS TO STATS: UNLOCKING INTERNATIONAL CENSUS DATA FROM PRINT VOLUMES" project through August 31, 2025. This project aims to digitize and analyze...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,999 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HNDS-I: BUILDING LONG-TERM, NATIONAL-SCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA COLLECTIONS FROM HISTORICAL MAP ARCHIVES - THE IMOLA (INTELLIGENT MAP RECOGNITION LAB) PROJECT". The project aims to develop advanced computational methods and scientific approaches to extract...
This Project Grant award of $134,432.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, awarded on July 1, 2025, supports a collaborative research project to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to understand the causes behind the observed slowdown in innovative activity in science, which is vital for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $280,789 project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for collaborative research titled "The Geological and Paleoecological Contexts of Early Miocene Hominoid Evolution." The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, the University of Minnesota will conduct research to contribute to understanding the resources invested in the Social, Behavioral,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $6,734,925 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to support the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029. The PSID is a long-running household panel survey that gathers data on the economic and social well-being of U.S. families, allowing researchers to investigate dynamics in human behavior, social...
This $500,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota on January 15, 2025. The grant funds the IMOLA (Intelligent Map Recognition Lab) project, which aims to develop advanced computational methods and scientific approaches to extract historical geographic information from scanned maps originally published by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1884 and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $984,495 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. This 7-month project, starting on October 1, 2024, will establish a major benchmarking survey of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) adults. The survey aims to address the substantial underrepresentation of AANHPI populations in U.S. research by...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $249,119 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The 3-year grant, which commenced on September 1, 2023, will support collaborative research on how the increasing "burden of knowledge" required for scientific progress has slowed the pace...