This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research on the ethical implications of using randomization in social science experiments. The $399,724 award to New York University (NYU) has a period of performance from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. The project aims to develop formal mathematical models to analyze the welfare consequences of random versus non-random methods for assigning...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $237,214 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on September 1, 2021 for the project "Tracing Human Response to Environmental Variability." The grant supports research through August 31, 2025 to contribute to understanding how people respond behaviorally and economically to environmental changes. A sub-award of $TBD was provided to the Weizmann Institute of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $217,772 Project Grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Alabama, effective July 1, 2024. This 3-year research project aims to investigate how individuals process information and make decisions when faced with prospects characterized by multiple layers of risk and/or ambiguity, such as those related to climate change or public health emergencies. The project will outline a series of...
This $240,900 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of educational resources for the ethical use of pervasive data in computing research. The project aims to address the unique ethical challenges around the collection and use of pervasive data - rich information generated from people's digital interactions - which often falls outside traditional human subjects...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Rutgers, The State University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The grant supports a civic innovation project that pilots solutions to assist low-resource urban residents in adapting to increasing heat stress and local air pollution, both outdoors and indoors. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: 1) Deploying a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $250,000 to Utah State University (USU) to demonstrate the use of wastewater monitoring as a tool for assessing air pollution exposure and associated non-communicable diseases in underserved communities. The project aims to link air pollution, urine biomarkers, and wastewater data to develop community-based disease surveillance methods utilizing wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study the relationship between pesticide exposure, social factors, and human biology during childhood. The research will be conducted under the sponsorship of Drs. Elizabeth Mallott and Theresa Gildner at Washington University in St. Louis. The project aims to: 1) examine associations between pesticide exposure, body...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $255,000 to the University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct a cross-field analysis of embedded social science research in the fields of genomics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The project involves interviewing researchers and research administrators to understand their perspectives on the value of integrating ethical and social science expertise into scientific...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $159,575 project grant to Rutgers, The State University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: U.S. INSTITUTIONS AFTER COVID-19: TRUST, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS." The two-year grant project, awarded December 1, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2023, will contribute to basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences under the NSF's Social,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Rutgers, The State University located in Piscataway, New Jersey. The 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, will support research to expand randomization-based causal inference methodology for complex blocked and multisite randomized control trials commonly used in the social and behavioral sciences. The project aims to develop novel techniques...