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...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $242,570 to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College to conduct research on differences in co-authorship patterns across a global landscape. The study aims to understand how the collaborative context affects scientific outcomes differently for scientists in various categories, focusing on the role of network structure in scientific...
This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...
This $265,102 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The goal of the research is to build empirically informed models to better understand the causes behind the declining rate of scientific innovation and identify solutions to foster more scientific breakthroughs. The award supports a novel mixed-method approach that combines agent-based simulation modeling with empirical analysis of the...
This $212,791 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports research aimed at understanding the incentives and constraints that influence scientists' willingness to pursue high-risk, high-return research projects. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientific norms, publication practices, and other factors impact scientists'...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $134,432.00 supports collaborative research to empirically model scientific search and progress. The research team, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to investigate causes behind the declining rate of scientific innovation and identify policies to foster more impactful breakthroughs. Using a mixed-method approach combining agent-based simulation models and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Macalester College a $116,859 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research examining the interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic. The Geosciences program seeks to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric,...
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)...
This $180,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of novel community detection tools and frameworks for analyzing weighted network data, with a focus on applications in bioinformatics and biological science. The primary goals are to identify highly correlated gene modules by leveraging covariance or correlation matrix representations, and to provide a systematic, computationally...