Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) and his colleagues, Fang-Yu Chen (Michigan State University), Charles K.S. Wu (Purdue), and Yao-Yuan Yeh (University of St. Thomas), were awarded $10,000 on the project "War, Collective Action, and Nation-building" by Global Taiwan Institute, a D.C.-based think tank. The project aims at using survey experiments to explore the psychological mechanism behind the nation-building process. To be specific, the experiments will focus on how people's perceptions of others' decisions during the military conflict may impact on their belief in the boundary of the imagined community. The project is currently under the UNLV IRB.