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News April 29, 2022

Gina Neff and Raka Ray Join the SSRC Board of Directors

The Social Science Research Council is proud to welcome two leaders in research and higher education as members of its Board of Directors: Dr. Gina Neff, who directs the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge, and Dr. Raka Ray, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Neff and Ray will serve on the SSRC Board of Directors for three-year terms. Gina Neff is the executive director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge and professor of Technology & Society at the University of …

News August 8, 2022

Laura Stilwell of Duke University Awarded 2022 Charles E. Lindblom Memorial Fellowship

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is proud to announce that Laura Stilwell of Duke University has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Charles E. Lindblom Memorial Fellowship. Stilwell’s fellowship project will investigate the “Impact of an Unconditional Cash Gift on Low-Income Families’ Housing Ecosystems and Their Mediating Role in Child Development.” The Charles E. Lindblom Fellowship is an annual prize open exclusively to PhD candidates enrolled at one of the SSRC College and University Fund for the Social Sciences’ higher education partners. The 2022 Lindblom Fellowship invited proposals for interdisciplinary social science projects that evaluate interventions to …

News April 20, 2022

21 Projects Selected to Receive SSRC/NEH Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program Grants

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is thrilled to announce the recipients of the Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP) Grants. The 21 grantees, ranging from research universities, HBCUs, and small liberal arts colleges to nonprofit and community organizations, will receive awards of up to $100,000 each to support the full spectrum of humanities infrastructure—including staffing, programming, and operations—in order to restore, sustain, and recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Priority was given to projects and programs that emphasize topics, themes, and approaches related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as applications from minority-serving institutions. Launched in October 2021, the Sustaining …

News March 31, 2022

Case Western Reserve University Joins the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences

The SSRC is proud to welcome Case Western Reserve University to the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF). Case Western Reserve joins a network of forty CUF higher education partners that are dedicated to connecting across disciplines and institutions to produce high-impact scholarship, and to expanding the funding infrastructure for social and behavioral science worldwide. “Societies around the globe face pressing challenges at scale: pandemics, hunger, climate change, growing economic inequality, threats to democratic institutions,” said SSRC president Anna Harvey. “The College and University Fund network is a key mechanism for leveraging the capacity of the international …

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