NAS to Organize Planning Meeting on Possible Development of K-12 Behavioral...
The National Academies’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) will be awarded funding for a planning meeting to determine whether to conduct a full panel study to develop a...
View ArticleHealth, Engineering, and National Security Experts laud Life-Saving Impact of...
“I am extremely impressed by what the social and behavioral sciences are doing and what their prospects are… What a wonderful way to try to achieve a more rational civilization, to not back away from...
View ArticleDeputy Takes Over at Board for Science Education
Heidi Schweingruber Heidi Schweingruber, the deputy director of the Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Research Council of the National Academies, has been named to head the board. She...
View ArticleOld Dominion’s Madhavan Heads Human-Systems Integration Board
Poornima MadhavanPoornima Madhavan, the founder and director of the Applied Decision Making Lab at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, will direct the Board on Human-Systems Integration at the...
View ArticleMary Ellen O’Connell Promoted to Head DBASSE
Mary Ellen O’ConnellMary Ellen O’Connell has been appointed as the executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, or DBASSE, at the National Academies of Sciences,...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Idea: Hauser Fund Supports Bringing Evidence to Policy
Bob Hauser studied economics at the Unersity of Chicago before getting a master’s and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan.Stumped for how to provide some holiday cheer to that...
View ArticleNational Academies Taps Social Science Expertise for Policy-Maker Use
While hopes for a medical answer to the current COVID-19 remain strong, the reality is that social, behavioral and economic science drives is driving policy as officials and individuals strive to halt...
View ArticleMobilizing Young Voters Focus of 2020 David Lecture
Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Historically, youth voter turnout has been abysmal....
View ArticleSeminar Links Social and Behavioral Insights on COVID with Policy
No policymaker alive has been called upon to address the enormous loss of lives and significant economic, educational, public health, and social costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it has also created...
View ArticleDBASSE Event Focused on Social Science Responses to COVID’s Challenges
The societal impacts of COVID-19 are enormous, but what can we do to lessen, reverse and even thrive in the face of that impact? An online seminar hosted on October 9 by the National Academies of...
View ArticleEvents: Hauser Policy Fund Spring Webinar Series
The National Academies of Sciences’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, or DBASSE, has announced the 2021 Spring Webinar Series of the Hauser Policy Impact Fund. This spring’s...
View ArticleDBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National Research Council’s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and...
View ArticleEngineer and Psychologist Carlotta Arthur to Head DBASSE
Carlotta M. Arthur Engineer and psychologist Carlotta M. Arthur, currently director of the Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM, has been named the new executive...
View ArticleShirley Malcom To Discuss DBASSE at Henry and Bryna David Lecture
Shirley Malcom originally studied zoology, earned a Ph.D. in ecology from Penn State, and taught biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for a year. But the animal she knows best is...
View ArticleEvent: Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of DBASSE’s Founding
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding on October 13-14...
View ArticleDBASSE Advisory Committee Gets Three New Members
Three new members have been appointed to the 19-strong committee advising the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine....
View ArticlePhilip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy
As he stands down from a two-year stint as the president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, or FABBS, Social Science Space took the opportunity to download a...
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