Calling Kristina Olson a path-breaking researcher doesn’t begin to describe all the doors this year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) most prestigious prize for young scientists has opened. A social and developmental psychologist at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Olson is the first person from her More
Big Psychology Grants Big Psychology Grants is an occasional series featuring large-scale studies and other notable programs in psychological science. This month, we look at a new training program in developmental research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Writing a grant proposal is a little like designing your own house, says More
Big Psychology Grants is an occasional series featuring large-scale studies and other notable programs in psychological science. This month, we profile a center that will extend the behavioral economics research to public policy in health and aging. Subjective well-being is a hot topic in the behavioral sciences, and only getting More
The third part of an occasional series profiling big psychology grants travels to Chicago’s Center for Advanced Research in Behavioral Neurobiology, where researchers are working to integrate the vast knowledge of behavior into a bigger picture. The 19th century lawyer and poet John Godfrey Saxe told a tale of six More
The second part of an occasional series profiling big psychology grants travels to Chicago’s Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, where a transdisciplinary team looks for the causes and cures of cancer. Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities Project Title: Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Where: University More
A new occasional series profiling big psychology grants begins with a look at the $12 million National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism, which will unite behavioral researchers of various disciplines. The National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism Project More
