The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

The Applied Data Science Microcredential from Saint Louis University provides students with the knowledge to do data analysis in the social sciences. Students in this SLU program will learn how to ...

Human beings remain mysterious. Our social relationships and the societies we form are still difficult to analyze. All the more so as this mass of people, basically one and the same, changes and ...

This project carried out a decadal survey on the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) in areas relevant to national security. The survey identified opportunities that are poised to contribute ...

Brie Tripp leads NPB 110C, a class that blends physiology lessons with examples of health disparities in underserved populations. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Rather than petri dishes or microscopes, ...

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Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

Choosing the right field is like choosing how to look at the world. Both humanities and social sciences study people, but they focus on different ideas and use different ways to understand them. The ...