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REU Sites: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
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| Site Information | Site Location | Contact Information | Additional Information |
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Tucson, Arizona |
Research Topics/Keywords: Anthropology, Archaeology REU Site: Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology Field SchoolAbstract of Award | ||
California State University, Long Beach Tracking Land Change (TLC) at River Ridge Ranch, California Geography |
Long Beach, California |
Primary: Paul Laris (562) 234-6651 paul.laris@csulb.edu Secondary: Scott Winslow scott.winslow@csulb.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Conservation, Restoration Ecology, Geospatial Technology, Remote Sensing, Conservation Drones, Carbon Sequestration, Working Lands, Oak Woodlands, Grasslands, California, Sequoia National Forest Comments: We currently have a template posted on the web-site, but are in the process of revising it. Our first cohort will not be until May of 2022 and recruiting will begin in fall of 2021. Tracking Land Change (TLC) at River Ridge Ranch, CaliforniaAbstract of Award |
New York, New York |
Primary: Luo Cassie Xu (646) 884-0156 lcx2001@columbia.edu Secondary: Joshua Fisher (212) 854-6851 jf2788@columbia.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: data science, science communication, climate impacts and inequities, sustainability REU Site: Beyond Basic Science – Connecting Climate to CommunitiesAbstract of Award | |
New York, New York |
Primary: Charles Scherbaum (646) 312-3807 charles_scherbaum@baruch.cuny.edu Secondary: Daniele Artistico daniele.artistico@baruch.cuny.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Psychology, Data analysis, Research, Applied Psychological Science REU Site: Training in Basic and Applied Psychological ScienceAbstract of Award | |
New York |
Research Topics/Keywords: Psychology, Neuroscience REU Site: Intensive Mentored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Psychology and Neuroscience at an Urban Public CollegeAbstract of Award | ||
North Carolina |
Research Topics/Keywords: Food, Housing, Healthcare Collaborative REU Site: Examining the Intersection of Food, Housing and HealthcareAbstract of Award | ||
North Carolina |
Research Topics/Keywords: Psychology and Neuroscience REU Site: Lifespan Approaches to Diverse Psychological ScienceAbstract of Award | ||
George Washington University Collaborative Research: REU Site: Past and Present Human-Environment Dynamics |
District Of Columbia |
Research Topics/Keywords: Human Environment Collaborative Research: REU Site: Past and Present Human-Environment DynamicsAbstract of Award | |
Indiana University REU Site: Animal Behavior in Context Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior |
Bloomington, Indiana |
Primary: Laura Hurley (812) 856-1991 lhurley@indiana.edu Secondary: Cara Wellman (812) 855-4922 wellmanc@indiana.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, behavior, neuroscience, ecology. endocrinology, genomics Comments: Coordinator: Linda Summers/812.855.9663 REU Site: Animal Behavior in ContextAbstract of Award Cofunded: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Ethics and Values Studies |
Johnson C. Smith University Collaborative REU Site: Examing the Intersection of Food, Housing and Healthcare |
Charlotte, North Carolina |
Research Topics/Keywords: Food, Housing, and Healthcare Collaborative REU Site: Examing the Intersection of Food, Housing and HealthcareAbstract of Award | |
language science, linguistics, cognition, science museum, public outreach The Language of Science and the Science of Language Psychology |
Columbus, Ohio |
Research Topics/Keywords: language science, linguistics, cognition, science museum, public outreach The Language of Science and the Science of LanguageAbstract of Award | |
New Mexico State University and University of Texas-El Paso Collaborative Site Program on Immigration Policy and US-Mexico Border Communities Department of Government, New Mexico State University |
Las Cruces, New Mexico |
Primary: Dr. Neil Harvey (575) 646-4935 nharvey@nmsu.edu Secondary: Dr. Jeremy Slack (915) 747-6530 jmslack@utep.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: immigration policy; US-Mexico border policy; social science research methods;
community-based participatory research; asylum Collaborative Site Program on Immigration Policy and US-Mexico Border CommunitiesAbstract of Award |
Ohio University REU Site: Treatment-Related Research for Children with Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Problems Department of Primary Care |
Athens, Ohio |
Research Topics/Keywords: treatment-related research; social, emotional, and behavior problems; children Comments: Here is the abstract that we submitted as our project summary. We'd love for it to be displayed on the Directory of REU Sites, or we are happy to revise what we had before in 2017-2020. New abstract is below: Intellectual Merit. The proposed REU site is a well-structured program for a cohort of nine students each year who are interested in treatment-related research for children with social REU Site: Treatment-Related Research for Children with Social, Emotional, and Behavioral ProblemsAbstract of Award | |
Old Dominion University Research Foundation REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Behavioral Sciences of Transportation Issues |
Virginia |
Research Topics/Keywords: Transportation Behavioral Sciences REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Behavioral Sciences of Transportation IssuesAbstract of Award | |
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park Collaborative Research: REU Site: Past and Present Human-Environment Dynamics |
Pennsylvania |
Research Topics/Keywords: Human Environment Dynamics Collaborative Research: REU Site: Past and Present Human-Environment DynamicsAbstract of Award | |
Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor NSF REU Site: Michigan Summer Program in Cognition and Early Development Department of Psychology |
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Primary: Felix Warneken (734) 647-2663 warneken@umich.edu Secondary: Ioulia Kovelman (734) 764-7247 kovelman@umich.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Child Psychology, Cognition, Language, Theory-of-Mind, Neuroscience NSF REU Site: Michigan Summer Program in Cognition and Early DevelopmentAbstract of Award |
Smithsonian Institution REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences National Museum of Natural History(NMNH) |
Washington, DC, District Of Columbia |
Research Topics/Keywords: Ocean Science, Meteoritics, Volcanology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Paleobiology, Conservation, Biodiversity, Systematics, Genomics, Anthropology, Archeology, Ethnology, Botany, Entomology, Zoology REU Site: Natural History Research ExperiencesAbstract of Award Cofunded: Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences | |
Georgia |
Research Topics/Keywords: Statistical Preparation Provides a Learning Pathway REU Site: Increasing Statistical Preparation in Research Education for Underrepresented UndergraduatesAbstract of Award | ||
New York |
Research Topics/Keywords: Public Health Trauma Research Collaborative Research: REU Site: Training Diverse Undergraduate Teams of Veterans and non-Veterans to Conduct Trauma Research with VeteransAbstract of Award | ||
College Station, Texas |
Research Topics/Keywords: Health disparities, Residential segregation, Education disparities, Disparities in housing and neighborhoods, Disparities in criminal justice outcomes NSF REU Site: Research Institute in Sociology and Social InequalityAbstract of Award | ||
University of Arkansas at Little Rock The Scope and Consequences of Hate Crime Victimization in the South School of Criminal Justice and Criminology |
Little Rock, Arkansas |
Primary: Tusty ten Bensel (501) 916-6637 ixzohra@ualr.edu Secondary: Robert Lytle (501) 961-6634 rdlytle@ualr.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Hate crime; victimization; qualitative research; survey research; criminal justice; criminology The Scope and Consequences of Hate Crime Victimization in the SouthAbstract of Award |
University of California - Santa Barbara NSF REU Site: Increasing Diversity In the Linguistic Sciences Through Research on Language and Social Mobility |
Santa Barbara, California |
Primary: Anne Charity-Hudley (804) 304-3493 acharityhudley@linguistics.uscb.edu Secondary: Mary Bucholtz bucholtz@ucsb.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Linguistic Sciences, Minority-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Role of Language in Social Mobility, Sociology NSF REU Site: Increasing Diversity In the Linguistic Sciences Through Research on Language and Social MobilityAbstract of Award Cofunded: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences |
University of Memphis REU Site: Memphis Neuroscience Techniques and Research Training Program for Undergraduates (NeuroSTART) Psychology |
Memphis, Tennessee |
Primary: Helen J. K. Sable, PhD (901) 678-4343 hjsable@memphis.edu Secondary: Deranda B. Lester, PhD (901) 678-4213 Deranda.Lester@memphis.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: neuroscience, voltammetry, electrophysiology, optogenetics, behavior, emotional regulation, addiction, executive function REU Site: Memphis Neuroscience Techniques and Research Training Program for Undergraduates (NeuroSTART)Abstract of Award |
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities REU Site: Summer Research in Neuroimaging for Cognitive Neuroscience |
Minnesota |
Research Topics/Keywords: Cognitive Science REU Site: Summer Research in Neuroimaging for Cognitive NeuroscienceAbstract of Award | |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln REU Site: Community-Engaged Research for Advancing Health Equity Department of Psychology, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Minority Health Disparities Initiative |
Lincoln, Nebraska |
Research Topics/Keywords: Health equity; health disparities; community-engaged REU Site: Community-Engaged Research for Advancing Health EquityAbstract of Award | |
Lincoln, Nebraska |
Research Topics/Keywords: Law and Science; Legal Mobilization; Legal Data Encoding and Analysis; History; Political Science Digital Legal Research LabAbstract of Award | ||
North Carolina |
Research Topics/Keywords: Data Science and Crime Analytics REU Site: Data Science and Crime AnalyticsAbstract of Award | ||
Notre Dame, Indiana |
Research Topics/Keywords: Advanced computational applications, Computational social science research, Cyberinfrastructure Tools, personality analysis (psychology), interpersonal networks (sociology) NSF REU Site: Computational Social ScienceAbstract of Award | ||
University of Oregon REU Sites: Increasing Native American Perspectives in Field and Experimental Linguistics Linguistics |
Eugene, Oregon |
Primary: Gabriela Perez Baez (347) 232-2191 gperezb4@uoregon.edu Secondary: Melissa Baese-Berk mbaesebe@uoregon.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: linguistics, fieldwork, language revitalization, experimental linguistics, speech perception and production, academic development, career in STEM, community engagement Comments: Alternative title of REU Site: Increasing American Indian/Alaska Native Perspectives in Field and Experimental Linguistics REU Sites: Increasing Native American Perspectives in Field and Experimental LinguisticsAbstract of Award |
University of Pennsylvania Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in Interdisciplinary Mind and Brain Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) MindCORE (Mind Center for Outreach, Research, and Education) |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Primary: Florian Schwarz (215) 898-8183 florians@ling.upenn.edu Secondary: Joseph Kable (215) 573-1111 kable@psych.upenn.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: mind, brain, behavior, biology, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in Interdisciplinary Mind and Brain Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn)Abstract of Award |
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