The National Science Foundation has awarded a $236,790 grant to the University of Kansas for Donna Ginther, professor of economics and interim director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research, to study the effects of research funding on research outputs. Ginther will collaborate with Joshua Rosenbloom, professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. "The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding" was awarded through NSF's Science of Science and Innovation Policy program and also included $313,624 in funding for Iowa State. Read more at the links below.
Link(s): http://news.ku.edu/2019/07/12/professor-will-examine-how-state-cuts-higher-education-affect-research-output
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An interdisciplinary research team led by Hyunjin Seo, University of Kansas associate professor of digital/emerging media, Docking Faculty Scholar in the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, secured a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to connect women post-incarceration to technology education. The project, "Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovations," will offer evidence-based technology education for women who have been recently released from incarceration. Seo's team includes Hannah Britton, associate professor of political science and women, gender & sexuality studies, Megha Ramaswamy, association professor of population health, Marilyn Ault, director of Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortia, and Karin Chang, executive director of Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium. Baek-Young Choi and Sejun Song, associate professors in the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, are collaborating with the KU team on this project. Read more about their work at the links below.
Link(s): https://today.ku.edu/2019/07/10/14m-nsf-grant-will-support-technology-education-women-released-prison
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Erin Adamson, doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, was awarded a $15,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Lifestyle Migrants and the Economics of Integration in Caribbean Costa Rica." Joane Nagel, professor of Sociology, will supervise her work. Adamson's research focuses on "reverse integration," which happens when immigrants are more wealthy than local residents, especially in relatively impoverished settings, and locals depend on immigrants for jobs, favors, and advancement. Read more about her work at the links below.
Link(s): https://news.ku.edu/2019/05/22/doctoral-researcher-examines-american-and-european-lifestyle-migrants-costa-rica
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