This $114,810 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "HNDS-R: Altruistic Stress, Economic Networks, and Endogenous Organizational Change" from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027.
The project seeks to improve understanding of how cooperation dynamics can...
This $134,432 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to understand the causes behind the observed slowing of innovative activity in science, which is critical for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. By combining theoretical and...
This three-year, $546,040 National Science Foundation project grant funds research on cooperation in multi-party civil conflicts. The grant supports the creation of a comprehensive dataset on cooperation between combatants in 12 complex multi-party civil wars since the Cold War. Researchers will analyze how past cooperative attempts within and across government-rebel group dyads influence future cooperation and conflict outcomes. They will also evaluate the diffusion of cooperation across...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $493,504 to create a novel dataset and conduct research on cooperation in multi-dyadic civil conflicts. Led by researchers at the University of Iowa, the project will develop the Cooperation in Civil War: Multi-Dyadic Conflicts Dataset covering 12 post-Cold War countries. This dataset will capture the evolution of cooperative relationships between...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a collaborative research project at the University of Chicago. The project will study how organizations and international bodies have sought to resolve global crises and strengthen governance and trust from the end of World War I to present day. The interdisciplinary research team will examine campaigns to create, reform, or abolish...
This $196,850 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds a collaborative research project that investigates factors contributing to regional and sectoral variation in labor organizing as employment conditions have changed in recent decades. The research uses a mixed methodology of quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This $286,178 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on how changes in information dissemination and consumption can impact strategic decision-making and the achievement of common goals. The project aims to develop new methodological tools to measure information similarity across individuals and analyze its effects on collective action problems, coordination games, and policy...
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 $331,752 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program aims to strengthen Maine's research ecosystem and pathways through strategic capacity building. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: E-CORE RII: STRENGTHENING MAINE'S RESEARCH ECOSYSTEM AND PATHWAYS THROUGH STRATEGIC CAPACITY BUILDING," will be led by the University of Southern Maine and includes partners such as the Maine Mathematics...