Stanford University
For The Development Of A Strategic Plan For The Center For Advanced Study In The Behavioral Sciences
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Amount$46,558
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Program
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Date Awarded11/30/2009
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Term6 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Univeristy brings fellows from around the world together to help the social and behavioral sciences to better contribute to society and to facilitate the deep, integrated, and interdisciplinary application of these sciences to real world concerns. This grant would provide the Center with the resources it needs to either reaffirm or develop a new vision for the Center and to create a strategic plan to implement that vision. Such a reexamination and planning process is timely as would be particularly useful now as the Center continues to determine how to integrate with Stanford University, a merger which occurred in early 2008, and who to hire as into its currently open director and associate director positions.
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siepr.stanford.edu
Address
366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States
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