Project Grant 2344563
- This $304,504 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to assess the experiences and obstacles faced by graduate students in science due to their socioeconomic backgrounds. Specifically, the project will design and field a survey among graduate students in biology, physics, chemistry, psychology, and sociology to better understand how socioeconomic class identity dissonance impacts their professional...
- This $599,868 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program will support research and training to create more inclusive undergraduate research experiences for low socioeconomic students in life sciences. Over a two-year period from September 2022 through August 2024, the awardee Arizona State University will conduct interviews and a nationwide survey to identify factors impacting low-SES student researchers. This research aims to understand...
- 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 two-year, $599,255 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research exploring career trajectories and outcomes of marginalized groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs. The principal investigators at the National Opinion Research Center will employ mixed methods to analyze survey data from current and recent doctoral students at three North Carolina institutions. The project aims to...
- This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund an early career scientist's ethnographic research on social determinants of knowledge production. Under the sponsorship of researchers at Harvard University and Arizona State University, the grant recipient will conduct comparative multi-site ethnography across regional police departments and nonprofits. Through observations, document analysis, and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences supports research to investigate how the division of household labor in families influences children's social development and future aspirations. The $310,545 award to Texas A&M University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution and Land Grant College, will fund a series of studies examining: (1) the association between family division of labor and children's future expectations...
- This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research examining tenant immobility and its impacts on family well-being. The grantee, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, will investigate how social networks, neighborhood contexts, and indoor environmental conditions influence low-income renters' decisions to remain in their homes in Los Angeles County,...
- This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research on extended family support and housing stability among at-risk youth. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will study how instrumental and emotional support from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and adult siblings influences the sense of safety and housing stability over time for 80 youth aged 16-19 in rural and minority communities in two Southwestern states. Using mixed methods...
- This $257,148 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund experimental research on social networks and migration in Nepal. Yale University will conduct a randomized controlled trial involving 2,000 potential migrants to evaluate the impact of three interventions on migration outcomes. The interventions include standard information on migration opportunities alone or paired with idiosyncratic guidance from an experienced...
- 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...
FAMILY OF ORIGIN, GEOGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS, AND CAREER INTENTIONS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE SCIENCES -INDIVIDUALS SEEKING CAREERS IN ACADEMIC SCIENCE DO NOT HAVE MUCH CONTROL OVER WHERE THEY LIVE AND WORK DUE TO THE NATURE OF SUCH CAREERS. THIS PRESENTS CHALLENGES TO SCIENTISTS WITH STRONG SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONNECTIONS TO THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES OF ORIGIN. THERE ARE REASONS TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH CONNECTIONS ARE PARTICULARLY SALIENT AMONG GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN SCIENCE, SUCH AS SCIENTISTS FROM RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY MINORITIZED GROUPS. THIS RESEARCH EXAMINES HOW SUCH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY TIES POTENTIALLY INFLUENCE AND RESTRICT THE ABILITY OF INDIVIDUALS TO ENTER AND STAY IN ACADEMIC SCIENCE. FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY HIGHLIGHT UNDERAPPRECIATED OBSTACLES TO INCREASING THE SIZE AND DIVERSITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE AND POTENTIAL STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING THOSE OBSTACLES. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION AND SCIENCE CAREER DECISIONS AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS. TO ASSESS THESE QUESTIONS, THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTS A SURVEY ON A SAMPLE OF 4,000 GRADUATE STUDENTS IN FIVE NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES IN THE UNITED STATES. RESPONDENTS ARE RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM STRATIFIED TO TIERS BASED ON PROGRAM RANKINGS. THE RESEARCHERS WILL CONDUCT 50 SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH SELECT SURVEY RESPONDENTS TO ADD RICH CONTEXT TO THE QUANTITATIVE DATA. THIS PROJECT IS JOINTLY FUNDED BY SCIENCE OF SCIENCE, THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (EPSCOR), AND SOCIOLOGY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 3/23/26 | ||
| Not listed | $127.3k | 2/6/24 |