Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College Sort descending | Grant Type |
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Janice | Thies | Crop and Soil Sciences | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | Circular Bionutrient Economy for AgriFood System Transition in Kenya | My project aims to explore agrifood system transitions through enhanced circularity in Kenya. I will synthesize available datasets to examine how, under different policy scenarios and engagement activities, the agrifood system transition can allow us to achieve synergistic outcomes in human and environmental wellbeing. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Barbara | Strupp | Nutritional Sciences, Psychology | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Geri | Gay | Communication, Information Science | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | Training Data for Encoding Social and Political Texts | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Lauren | Jones | Policy Analysis and Management | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Developing a Concept of Choice | Tamar Kushnir spent her 2013 Fellowship discovering how young children learn about the social world. Her fellowship resulted in three empirical papers and a book chapter on children's social learning and moral cognition, and two theoretical reviews on rational learning in childhood. The papers from her 2013 year are some of her most impactful and cited works. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Who knows best: Preschoolers’ causal learning from experts in light of their own play experience | NSF award resulting from pilot data and subsequently 5 high impact publications, 10 conference presentations, trained undergraduate/graduate researchers. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Peter | Glick | Nutritional Sciences | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Ying | Hua | Design and Environmental Analysis | An Exploration of the Effect of Design Interventions on Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Workplace | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Hyuncheol | Kim | Policy Analysis and Management | Promoting Healthy Eating among Poor Children: Information, Affordability, and Accessibility on Food Consumption in Ethiopia | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Pauline | Leung | Policy Analysis and Management | Further Education During Unemployment | Produced an eponymous working paper (Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper #642, May 2020) currently under peer review. Results from the project presented at more than ten seminars and conferences. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Don | Kenkel | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Insurance Choice and Utilization | This award supported the dissertation research of Shooshan Danagoulian. Her dissertation has led to 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals -- Health Economics 2018, and the International Journal of Health Economics 2018. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
Tatiana | Homonoff | Policy Analysis and Management | The Nth of the Month Effect: Consumer and Retailer Response to SNAP Benefit | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Saleh | Kalantari | Design and Environmental Analysis | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | We created a platform for immersive VR testing of wayfinding designs, collecting both subjective feedback and biometric data. The project results in a validated virtual design-testing system, along with specific findings about the effectiveness of wayfinding strategies in a hospital design. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Kimberly | Kopko | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marlen | Gonzalez | Human Development | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | This project will test the overlapping and unique representations of social and physical resources in the brain using partner hand holding and a tasteless carbohydrate. |
2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | The Foreclosure Crisis and Racial Residential Stratification | Led to publication of a paper in the American Sociological Review and another in the ANNALS. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Samuel | Kleiner | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Physician Referral Patterns | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Moncrieff | Cochran | Human Development | Evaluating an Employer-Supported Child Care Program: An Ecological Approach | The funding from this grant helped to support graduate student research. |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Gary | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis | Chaos and Children's Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms | This SSRC grant in conjunction with additional funding enabled hosting of the International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health at Cornell. This is only the second time this Network has met in the United States. Funding also enabled support for several, international graduate students to attend. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Gary W. | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Development | Childhood Poverty, Health, and Behavior: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | CCSS funds went towards purchasing advertising data used for pilot analyses included in an NIH/AHRQ grant proposal, “Direct and Indirect Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Avery (Cornell PI), Eisenberg (JHU), Sood (USC), Alpert (UPenn), and Niederdeppe (Cornell), which received four years of funding May 2018. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Food Choice | We conducted a randomized experiment of calorie labels on restaurant menus. Over 5,500 patrons received either the regular menu without calorie counts or the same menu but with calorie information added. We estimate that the calorie labels reduced the number of calories ordered by roughly 3%. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marie | Caudill | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Fatma | Baytar | Fiber Science and Apparel Design | Decoding tacit knowledge in apparel product development | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neurogenetic Sources of Individual Variation in Sensitivity to the Environment | Anderson’s lab collected data through behavioral assessment of sensitivity to emotional cues, findings of which have highlighted a distinction between emotional reactivity to a current event and the tendency to embed emotional events into memory. He received a second CU grant for the project. |
2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development | Revolutionizing Assessment of Children's Early Numerical Abilities with Portable EEG | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Leveraging the ASHEcon Conference at Cornell to Promote Exchange Across the Social Sciences | This grant contributed funding to support Cornell’s hosting of the national American Society of Health Economists meeting on campus. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Response to the Withdrawal of Prescription Drugs | This project, which examined how consumers respond when prescription drugs were pulled from the market, resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. It also led to further collaboration, and two subsequent publications on related topics, with the same coauthor. | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Claire | Dush | Human Development | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Richard | Depue | Human Development | Psychobiology of the Formation of Social Bonds | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Eve | DeRosa | Human Development | Influence of Body State on Cognition and Emotion in Shaping Environmental Interactions: Implications for Aging | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Rebekka | Christopoulou | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Lin | Bian | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Carol M. | Devine | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development, Psychology | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | Smoking Cessation Advertisements and Source Credibility | The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising. | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | The Civic Playground Project | The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments. |
2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Leighton | Beaman | Human Centered Design | The Civic Playground Project | The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Canfield | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Canfield | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Laura Staum | Casasanto | Human Development | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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