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Deadline Approaching for Center for Research on Families (CRF) Student Research Grants and Awards Program | Deadline: Friday Febuary 27th 2015

The Student Research Grants and Awards Program provides support to undergraduate and graduate students to work with UMass faculty on research and enables the acknowledgment of outstanding student research on family issues. Awardees engage with the center by attending roundtable events to present their research.

Preference is given to students in the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

To receive announcements about our student awards program please join our mailing list (see right hand corner.)

2012-13 ISSR Scholar, Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Anthropology) Mentioned In Journal of Blacks in Higher Education for Her Appointment as Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center

Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Anthropology) is mentioned in  an article titled "Seven African Americans Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education."  Read the full article here.

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COSSA Washington Updates

What is COSSA?

http://www.cossa.org/

The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) is an advocate for the research community, educating policy makers on the need for federal funding for research in the social and behavioral sciences.  Following the enactment of the 2013 Coburn Amendment restricting NSF political science research funding, COSSA led the national protest from the social science community which resulted in the defeat of this amendment by the Senate.  However, similar bills that have recently been proposed continue to create vulnerability for funding for social science research.   COSSA issues regular updates from Washington on its efforts, which ISSR will share here to keep you informed.

January 27, 2015, Volume 34, Issue 2 | Science and Human Rights Coalition Explores the Risks and Promise of Big Data

January 13, 2015, Volume 34, Issue 1 | COSSA Annual Meeting & Advocacy Day, March 9-10 Register Today!

December 19, 2014, Volume 33, Issue 23 | COSSA Urges Census to Maintain Field of Degree, Marriage Questions in ACS

December 19, 2014, "CRomnibus" Update from COSSA -- with COSSA's full analysis of the spending package

December 5, 2014, Volume 33, Issue 22 |  FY 2015 Funding Bills Approaching December 11 Deadline Headline

November 17, 2014,  Volume 33, Issue 21 | More Questions than Answers Following Midterm Elections

October 20, 2014, Volume 33, Issue 19 | Social Scientist among National Medal of Science Winners

October 6, 2014, Volume 33, Issue 18 | Congresswoman Johnson Defends NSF's Merit Review Process -- Letter to Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) expressing concern over the chairman's ongoing "investigation" into the merit review process at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and criticism of individual grants funded by NSF.