This Project Grant award, totaling $496,927, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award will fund a project to extract, format, and geospatially map data from historical American Medical Directories between 1906-1938. This will create a novel, publicly-accessible longitudinal dataset of the early 20th century medical workforce, including details on physician training, specialization, and migration. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to construct a large individual-level dataset of U.S. college students over the past century. The investigators will digitize historical college rosters from the early 1900s to 1950s and link this data to U.S. population censuses to observe students' socioeconomic backgrounds and long-term adult...
This $256,049 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the relationship between shared and disparate cultural notions and their impact on health behaviors and outcomes. The project involves an international collaboration of anthropologists, psychologists, and biologists, along with graduate student training, to evaluate how cultural values are shared, internalized, and...
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 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research examining the contextual influences on faculty pedagogical decision-making and student learning in sociotechnical engineering design education. The $244,294 award to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) will fund a multi-year research study with three key objectives: Convene faculty across institutions to facilitate knowledge sharing and pedagogical innovation...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $650,975 to Duke University to expand opportunities for undergraduate students to pursue doctoral programs and careers in the social sciences. The 3-year project immerses students in a 5-week intensive program that includes graduate-level coursework, research methods training, and the completion of original research projects. Successful students present their...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career postdoctoral researcher investigating how to improve the ability to understand the deep history of population health from evidence in the archaeological record. The project aims to develop and use cutting-edge computational methods, including generative modeling and Bayesian inference, to test the accuracy of current analytical methods in...
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 National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $274,144 provides funding for the "Disability Culture and Technology" project being conducted by Vanderbilt University from May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The goal of the project is to document how disabled individuals use remote access technologies to form communities and shape society, both during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will build an archive of oral histories, images, videos and other documentation...
This Project Grant award of $423,417 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project investigating the relationship between the history of colonialism and present-day racial identities. The project aims to develop and test an integrative model evaluating how colonial-based racial identities impact the education, health, and prosperity of individuals from low-status and disadvantaged groups,...