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NCTDR is pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Massachusetts and faculty associated with NCTDR a three year grant of $873,442 to continue research on modeling processes of online dispute resolution. Principal investigators of the grant...

... clips from that event and other interviews with these experts are now available online. They describe how recent advances in science and technology are making it possible to unravel some of these mysteries while showing us just how complex our ... Gazzaniga, director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California and author of the new book "Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique"; Rebecca Saxe, Carole Middleton Career Development Professor in the department of ...

... , 2007, the President signed the America Creating Opportunities To Meaningfully Promote Excellence In Technology, Education, And Science Act (America COMPETES). This abolished the Department of Commerce Office of Technology Administration, which gave out the award previously. The COMPETES Act does double the funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to "encourage scientists to explore promising and critical areas such as nanotechnology, supercomputing, ...

... sports. But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science. The National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy have set up programs to look for sexual discrimination at ... compliance reviews haven't had much visible impact on campuses beyond inspiring a few complaints from faculty members. (The journal Science quoted Amber Miller, a physicist at Columbia, as calling her interview "a complete waste of time.") But some critics fear ...

... country's universities. Congressional requests have driven NASA, DOE and the National Science Foundation to conduct investigations at America's top schools for science to determine whether the low numbers of women in certain physical sciences ... math students, in which psychologists found both that talented women felt pressured by their teachers to pursue the sciences as "torch bearers" for other girls. Another study concludes that the differentiation in academic interests between girls and boys ...

... collapse disorder (CCD) and the Israel acute paralysis virus (IAPV). The Brain/Education Barrier, which begins: "In an era of translational science, researchers often find themselves in the mixed company of policy-makers, legislators, and educators looking for "evidence-based" practice. Hmmm, ... cell research, doesn't it? "Lights, Camera, Clarify" which discusses SciVee, a new video-sharing site form the Public Library of Science and the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's at www.scivee.tv.

The proposed Coburn amendment to eliminate the political science division of the National Science Foundation and funding for political science research has once again raised the question of whether academic research is relevant to real-world problems. The controversy over electing judges provides interesting insight into this question, particularly when examining the reactions of the advocacy community [...]

... a research team from the Psychology Department at New York University, headed by Professor Yaacov Trope and supported by the National Science Foundation, is investigating the cognitive causes of voting behavior, political preferences, and candidate evaluations throughout the course of the 2008 U. ... , if you would be willing to post it even once, it would already be a great help to us. So, what the heck, I've queued it up for science. Excuse the repeats. [slightly edited since the original posting]

... research team from the Psychology Department at New York University, headed by Professor Yaacov Trope and supported by the National Science Foundation, is investigating the cognitive causes of voting behavior, political preferences, and candidate evaluations throughout the course of the ... running several days prior to Election Day. Of course, if you would be willing to post it even once, it would already be a great help to us. So, what the heck, I've queued it up for science. Excuse the repeats.

... venue to share their lab discoveries and lectures in a receptive online environment. And today, SciVee enters the beta phase. The AP reports: Funded by the National Science Foundation, SciVee encourages scholars with a paper hot off the press to make a short video called a "pubcast" highlighting the key points. It also accepts unsolicited submissions that have no connection to any published work. Phil Bourne (above right), a ...