Project Grant R305A170559

This National Science Foundation project grant of $601,615 will fund a contextual analysis of peer experiences during early adolescence under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The Research Foundation For The State University of New York will conduct online data collection via surveys and daily diaries from 300 socioeconomically and ethnically diverse young adolescents at three time points spanning one school year and summer. The project aims to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) provides $349,640 to the University of Illinois to conduct innovative research on how a student's location and school resources affect their long-term cognitive, non-cognitive, and life outcomes. The research leverages unique administrative data spanning over 20 years to examine the causal impacts of school quality measures, teacher/principal effectiveness, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $448,060 to Felician University, a private nonprofit university in New Jersey, to further the understanding of how first-generation and continuing-generation university students meet and overcome academic barriers. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: 1) a rigorous...

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded $906,000 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for a project titled "The Long-Run Causal Effects of Single-Sex High Schools on Adult Outcomes: Survey and Experiments." The University of Pennsylvania will conduct an online survey of approximately 3,500 individuals ages 33-52 who graduated from...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, totaling $144,497, will fund research examining culturally responsive measures of reasoning and executive function development among Latinx and European American children. Led by researchers at California State University, Fullerton, the project aims to refine developmental models of these cognitive skills by exploring how meaningful participation in everyday social and...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded $122,710 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Stanford University from June 2022 to July 2023. The project aims to increase diversity in the linguistic sciences through an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site examining the role of language in social mobility. Undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions will conduct...

This $138,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund a mixed-methods investigation of racial socialization in multiracial families. The grant recipient, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, will research how multiracial families discuss issues of race and ethnicity with their children. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to strengthen basic research in these fields and monitor science...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...

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...