This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $200,592 to Northwestern University will fund the "Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams (ADVENT)" project. The research aims to create an open-source computational network model to optimize team formation by integrating functional individual differences and member affinity. The researchers will train and test this model...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will examine the effects of gender composition on disruptive scientific teams. The $199,995 award to the University of Notre Dame aims to: Analyze the impact of gender composition on scientific disruption by examining over 49 million papers and 4 million patents across various fields over 50 years. This will provide empirical evidence on how different gender...
This $494,313 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to create a multidisciplinary research network exploring the potential and challenges of new technologies in fostering collective learning. The project will develop a theoretical framework to guide the design of technology-enhanced learning environments, create tools to study collective learning in various contexts, and design technological platforms...
This $323,388 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project to examine how smart technological environments can be optimized to augment collective learning and creativity. The research aims to investigate the parameters that drive group-directed learning in three key areas: cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The project involves large-scale...
This $741,554.00 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support a collaborative research project titled "A Student Asset-Based Approach to the Formation of Equitable Teams (SAFE Teams)." The project aims to identify and understand pedagogical strategies that promote equity in team experiences for Black and Latinx students in engineering and computer science classrooms. The research team will use an...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $225,974 to Cornell University to investigate how technological augmentations can enhance the learning and effectiveness of work teams, community groups, classrooms, and other collectives. The research examines the parameters that drive group-directed learning in areas such as cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 is funding a research project at the University of Chicago to investigate the role of networks in influencing the outcomes of interventions across various domains, such as education, marketing, and tax decisions. The project will focus on developing new randomized experimental methods and open-source software to enable robust inference of network effects and quantify...
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 $111,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to study the relationship between multiple team membership (MTM) and employee wellbeing. The research team from Utah State University will use a mixed-methods approach, including interviews, experiments, and surveys, to understand how the variety in technology, tasks, and socio-psychological contexts across multiple teams affects the wellbeing of both...