This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $268,939 to the University of South Florida to study how migrant communities establish durable settlements under uncertain timelines from 2022 to 2025. The award will support research using ethnographic methods like participant observation, interviews, and photo voice to analyze how demographic characteristics affect community incorporation experiences for migrants...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $259,476 to Fordham University supports a multi-year research project investigating the impacts of migration on civic participation and global engagement. The researchers employ a longitudinal, multi-site approach to track how migrants' return trajectories affect their civic involvement and social/political empowerment in their home countries. The project aims to enhance...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to investigate how and when scientists and other technical experts have influenced national decisions related to science, technology, and innovation. The research team at William Marsh Rice University will utilize a large corpus of digital records, a relational database, and interviews to systematically trace...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Rice University a $518,668 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant, awarded September 15, 2021 and concluding August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research on urban flooding and residential adaptation in Houston, Texas. The funding will enable Rice University researchers to partner with local organizations and residents to study how...
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 National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities project grant award of $399,445 provides funding for an undergraduate research experience program focused on immigration policy. Over a three-year period ending in August 2025, the New Mexico State University awardee will deliver a collaborative research program for ten undergraduate students per summer through a nine-week experience. Students will receive training in qualitative and quantitative research methods while...
This $100,608 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the relationships between human activities, place attachment, and environmental factors. The project takes a mixed-methods approach, including mapping geographic patterns of human activities, to analyze how place attachments develop in response to changes in natural landscapes. The research findings will contribute to a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $136,402 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The grant will fund a collaborative research project involving four Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Texas to address infrastructure and technological disparities that disadvantage students at HSIs. Key objectives include: 1) conducting sociological research relevant to creating opportunities across...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $253,965 supports a qualitative study that examines how population science data is represented in social, popular, news, and think tank media. The study, titled "Re-Presenting Population Science Data in the Context of Shifting Demographic Dynamics, Climate Change and Alternative Epistemologies," will produce a scholarly book and curricular materials for...
This $399,943 National Science Foundation project grant supports research from 2022 to 2025 examining how racial and ethnic identification changes across time and place. Funded through the SBE Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), principal investigator Texas A&M University will link census and administrative records from 1940 to 2020 to study patterns in racial/ethnic self-categorization for millions of individuals, including immigrants, children of immigrants, and those with multiple...