The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $382,047 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant, running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will fund a research project investigating the role of amenities, residential preferences, mortgage lending practices, and real estate advertisements in neighborhood change processes. The project...
This $400,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support Cornell University in developing natural language processing techniques to automate the extraction of key regulatory information from hundreds of local zoning codes. The University will assemble zoning codes, manually review them, and incorporate specific data into the publicly accessible...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $359,208 project grant to Michigan State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the "Mapping Informal and Alternative Housing in the United States: A Big Data Approach for Examining Spatial Inequality" project from August 2021 through July 2024. The project aims to examine the proliferation of informal and alternative housing in the U.S., and how this relates to uneven spatial...
This $383,941 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) supports the development of a collaborative digital platform and research network focused on mapping the historical origins of residential segregation patterns in U.S. urban areas. The key objectives are to create an open-access digital database and GIS mapping resources that enable interdisciplinary research on the locational attainments and household-level...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $395,000 provides funding for a research project titled "Informality and Inequality in the Global North: Regulation, Non-Compliance, and Enforcement in US Land Use and Housing Law." The project will be carried out between August 2023 and July 2026 under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The award supports research and education activities to examine the proliferation of informal housing...
This $155,811 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on how people adapt to patterns in language use and reference. The project examines how human learners extract and utilize common reference patterns to develop robust language processing strategies, which could explain generational shifts in communication styles. The research aims to uncover the mechanisms underlying language...
This National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $808,398 to Brown University from July 2022 to June 2024. The funding will support research investigating the origins and impacts of racial and ethnic residential segregation in 45 major U.S. cities from 1920 to 1970. Specifically, the grantee will examine the use of restrictive covenants and mortgage redlining during this period and their effects on neighborhood...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences award, CFDA 47.075, provides $507,066 to Montclair State University to create a corpus of annotated speech data for African American English, Latinx English, and European American English. The goal is to advance scientific understanding of prosody and develop tools for automatic detection of accent and phrase boundaries across these language varieties. A team of 7 diverse students will receive training through the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop an interdisciplinary research center on the complex issues of housing and homelessness. The center will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines such as economics, psychology, anthropology, geography, and sociology to investigate the social, health, economic, and policy...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $200,000, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will fund research conducted by the University of Southern California (USC) to understand the evolution of hate language use in online communities. The project will analyze large social media datasets using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to identify factors influencing participation in...