The National Science Foundation awarded Georgetown University a $140,083 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research titled "The Political Wealth of Nations" from June 2021 through May 2024. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social sciences, the NSF program aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through understanding resources invested in science. Georgetown University will...
This $100,608 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the relationships between human activities, place attachment, and environmental factors. The project takes a mixed-methods approach, including mapping geographic patterns of human activities, to analyze how place attachments develop in response to changes in natural landscapes. The research findings will contribute to a...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $360,727 Project Grant to the University of Houston System to support collaborative research on international coercion, debt relief, and land transactions under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The two-year project beginning January 2021 aims to better understand how governments behave during financial crises, including whether they continue repaying loans or default. As part of the research, $XXX in sub-awards will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $187,180 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research examining the relative roles of ecology, evolution, and experience in solving novel problems under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Baylor University a $159,211 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research from September 2021 through August 2025 on the geological and paleoecological contexts of early Miocene hominoid evolution. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program's goals to promote basic research and education in these...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $263,266 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, to investigate "Social and Political Dynamics of Lab-Community Relations". The project will rethink the diversity of people involved in American exploration and how their knowledge was applied to help their communities amid colonial violence. It aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Trustees of Boston University a $575,862 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research to develop advanced statistical techniques and spatial machine learning methods for accurately predicting land values and conservation costs across large, heterogeneous geographic areas in the United States. The grantee will compare...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,284 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as University of Michigan) to conduct a collaborative research study titled "HNDS-R: Stepping Out of Flatland: Complex Networks, Topological Data Analysis, and the Progress of Science." The 3-year project, beginning September 1, 2023, will use...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Brown University a $173,805 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research on adaptive strategies under empire transitions, contributing to the scientific understanding of resources invested in social and behavioral science. As the sole awardee, Brown University will...