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 ...

Where is leading social science research being conducted in the U.S.? Which universities lead the way in fields such as anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology? One key ...

The HSS (Humanities and Humanistic Social Science) labs program was created to provide research experience for students and expand and advance research for faculty in the humanities and social ...

The Tuesday after spring break, students from Purdue University’s Computational Social Science Lab eagerly gathered in the Joe and Maggie Kernan Social Science Research Lab on Beering Hall’s second ...

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 ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

Igor Grossmann receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, The John Templeton Foundation, and the ...

The University of Michigan recently earned the top spot for the second year in a row in the Consortium of Social Science Associations’ 2023 College & University Rankings, which decides how much ...

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy informed the National Academy of Sciences that it should terminate all work on this activity. This activity has ended, and a final product was not released.