The Directorate
for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the National
Science Foundation (NSF) announces a Special Focus to increase and
improve infrastructure to support the social and behavioral sciences.
The Division of Social, and Economic Sciences (SES) and the Division
of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) have supported critical
large-scale infrastructure for the SBE sciences beginning with support
to continuing sample survey projects in the 1960s. These investments
have ranged from experimental facilities to centers for scholarly
interactions, from a comprehensive survey that has followed the
same families for a generation to narrowly defined data collections
subsequently shared among researchers. Major parts of the behavioral,
and especially the social sciences owe their substantial development
to the widespread use of these resources. The societal benefits
have accumulated apace, including fundamental understanding of poverty,
income disparities, social stratification, voting patterns, family
dissolution, public attitudes, and parents' investments in their
children.
Yet, challenging
scientific questions and associated societal dilemmas still abound.
These require new infrastructure, even new kinds of infrastructure,
for their elucidation. Simultaneously, the expanding capabilities
of the World Wide Web to create, consolidate, and share infrastructure
resources are barely touched in the social and behavioral sciences.
This confluence of major payoffs to existing infrastructure, and
unprecedented power to bring data, researchers, and experimental
facilities together electronically creates a singular window of
opportunity. This Special Focus aims to realize this opportunity
by expanding the number and variety of infrastructure projects that
are large, innovative, and long-running.
NSF 00-79:
Enhancing Infrastructure For The Social And Behavioral Sciences
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Awards
made in FY 1999 |
9978093
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John Abowd,
Cornell |
9978116
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Michael
Gazzaniga, Dartmouth |
9978058
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Michael
Goodchild, UC Santa Barbara |
9978056
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Brian
MacWhinney, Carnegie-Mellon |
9977984
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Richard
Rockwell, Michigan |
9907416
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Steven
Ruggles, Minnesota |
Awards
made in FY 2001 |
0094908 |
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John Adams,
Minnesota |
0094934 |
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Anthony
Aristar, Wayne State |
0094928 |
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Jeanne
Beck, Coriell Institute |
0094993 |
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Oliver
Ryder, Zoological of San Diego |
0094800 |
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Charles
Holt, University of Virginia |
0096588 |
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Kenneth
Kidd, Yale University |
0094964 |
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Diana
Mutz, Ohio State |
0096867 |
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James
Smith, Rand Corportation |
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