Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
AAPSS Seeks Nominations for 2023 Moynihan Prize
The annual American Academy of Political and Social Science’s Moynihan Prize was created to recognize social scientists, public officials, and civic leaders […]
Shirley Malcom To Discuss DBASSE at Henry and Bryna David Lecture
Shirley Malcom, senior adviser to the CEO and director of the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will deliver this year’s David Lecture.
Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award
The annual award ceremony for the Golden Goose Award will take place on September 14, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET. While […]
Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake
Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Ukraine-Focused Researchers at Risk Fellowships Program Receives Additional Funding
More money to help Ukrainian academics is being allocated to the Researchers at Risk Fellowship scheme in the United Kingdom.
Engineer and CASBS Alumnus Arati Prabhakar Tabbed to Head U.S. Science Policy Office
Engineer and applied physicist Arati Prabhakar – who previously headed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology — has been nominated to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Craig-Henderson Made Permanent Head of NSF’s Social and Behavioral Science Directorate
Psychologist Kellina Craig-Henderson, who has been serving as the acting head of the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, has been appointed as the permanent boss.
Open Letter: Action Steps for Rebuilding Ukraine’s Science, Research, and Innovation
The national science academies of the United States, the all-European academy and those of four separate European countries released, with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a short statement on rebuilding “a modern and globally integrated science and research system” in Ukraine.
