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Frank P. Scioli, PhD Senior Science Advisor, Division of Social & Economic Sciences For over three decades, Dr. Frank P. Scioli has been the champion of political science at the National Science Foundation. Prior to becoming senior science advisor in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, he was the political science program director, urban research initiative director and section head. His dedication to the discipline has enabled hundreds of political science scholars to research original and novel topics. Dr. Scioli worked to ensure the fair distribution of research funds and to vigorously educate diverse audiences and the leadership at the NSF on the public and scientific benefits of political science research. This has resulted in maintained or increased levels of funding for the discipline, even during times of criticism. In addition, he labored to inform researchers of the opportunities available to them. Dr. Scioli’s constant efforts to promote the discipline have also had positive effects on graduate education. For over three decades at the NSF, he worked to build the discipline’s instructional infrastructure. His stewardship has seen the blossom of such tools as the American National Election Studies, one of the longest running and extensively used data collections on the study of elections, parties and politics in the world, in addition to the Time-Shared Experiments in the Social Sciences and the Virtual Library. Not only did he represent the discipline to the NSF, Dr. Scioli also fostered collaboration between the Association and the Foundation on the Methodology, Measurement and Statistics Program and the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. |
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