LINGUIST List 21.3337 Thu Aug 19 2010 FYI: NSF Requests Advice on Priorities For the Future Editor for this issue: Rachelle Felzien <rachellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Bill Badecker, NSF Requests Advice on Priorities For the Future Message 1: NSF Requests Advice on Priorities For the Future Date: 18-Aug-2010 From: Bill Badecker <wbadeckensf.gov> Subject: NSF Requests Advice on Priorities For the Future E-mail this message to a friend The assistant director of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate of the National Science Foundation has issued a request for advice in shaping NSF’s priorities for the future. As you probably know, SBE includes the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, to which the NSF Linguistics Program belongs. The initial parts of the assistant director’s letter are appended to this posting; the complete text of his letter can be found at the URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf10069 Individuals and groups who wish to suggest ideas to SBE should do so at this web site, following the instructions there: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/ Joan Maling and Bill Badecker Linguistics Program Directors Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences National Science Foundation Dear Colleague Letter for SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the social, behavioral, and economic sciences face extraordinary opportunities to address next-generation research challenges. The landscape is vast and complex, stretching across temporal and spatial dimensions and multiple levels of analysis -- from studying the human brain to implications of decision making in a dynamic and fragmented yet interconnected world. As we look forward 10 or even 20 years, the Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF/SBE) seeks to frame innovative research for the year 2020 and beyond that enhances fundamental knowledge and benefits society in many ways. This request is part of a process that will help NSF/SBE make plans to support future research. Other activities will include a report by the Directorate’s Advisory Committee about the grand challenges facing the SBE sciences over the next decade and recommendations from the Directorate’s staff. The insights resulting from this process are threefold: They will inform the substance of future research, the capacities to pursue that research, and the infrastructure to enable investigations that will be increasingly interdisciplinary and international and will involve multiple perspectives and intellectual frameworks, differing scales and contexts, and diverse approaches and methodologies. As a first step in engaging its community, NSF/SBE invites individuals and groups to contribute whitepapers outlining grand challenge questions that are both foundational and transformative. They are foundational in the sense that they reflect deep issues that engage fundamental assumptions behind disciplinary research traditions and are transformative because they seek to leverage current findings to unlock a new cycle of research. We expect these white papers to advance SBE’s mission to study human characteristics and human behaviors in its Social and Economic Sciences and Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences divisions, as well as to be the nation’s resource for understanding the structure and development of science through its Science Resources Statistics division. … Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.