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Enhancing Infrastructure for the Social and	Behavioral Sciences
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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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For more information on future infrastructure-like activities, you may wish to look at the Human and Social Dynamics http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/hsd/start.htm priority area homepage.

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Award History
Awards made in FY 1999
9978093   John Abowd, Cornell
9978116   Michael Gazzaniga, Dartmouth
9978058   Michael Goodchild, UC Santa Barbara
9978056   Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie-Mellon
9977984   Richard Rockwell, Michigan
9907416   Steven Ruggles, Minnesota
Awards made in FY 2001
0094908 John Adams, Minnesota
0094934 Anthony Aristar, Wayne State
0094928 Jeanne Beck, Coriell Institute
0094993 Oliver Ryder, Zoological of San Diego
0094800 Charles Holt, University of Virginia
0096588 Kenneth Kidd, Yale University
0094964 Diana Mutz, Ohio State
0096867 James Smith, Rand Corportation

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