This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.075), supports research to understand the relationships between geographic location and science career decisions among graduate students. The $127,331 award to the West Virginia University Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization, will implement a survey of 4,000 graduate students in five science disciplines to assess how family and community...
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 $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...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $204,082 to an alliance of four Texas Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to improve their research competitiveness and create opportunities for students. The key products and services funded through this 2-year award include:
Conducting two interconnected research studies on attitudes, experiences, and inequality across demographic and socioeconomic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $219,315 supports a collaborative research initiative between four Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Texas. The project aims to: 1) conduct research on inequality and opportunity that is directly relevant to creating opportunities across demographic and socio-economic groups; 2) establish physical lab spaces with state-of-the-art computing resources and analysis software...
This $209,204 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research investigating the impacts of diversity and inclusion in the scientific workforce. The key objectives are to: (a) quantify the participation of people of color and members of historically marginalized populations in science production, (b) elucidate their role in driving intellectual innovations, and (c) understand how team...
This $136,402 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a collaborative research alliance between four Texas Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The primary objectives are to: 1) conduct research focused on creating opportunities across demographic and socio-economic groups; 2) establish physical and virtual lab spaces with advanced computing resources and software at the collaborating...
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 Project Grant award of $194,675 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to develop new econometric and statistical methods that allow researchers to draw valid conclusions from complex data in a variety of social, behavioral, and medical science settings. The key products and services to be delivered include:
Developing a generally applicable reparameterization procedure for informative...