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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Vaghlea | Palashi | Information Science | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Jen | Liu | Information Science | Understanding the impact of climate change on networked infrastructures in vulnerable coastal communities in south Louisiana | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
Jess | Hohenstein | Information Science | Developing a Complete Framework for the Social Effects of AI in Communication | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Allison | Koenecke | Information Science | Dialectal Fairness in Korean Speech-to-Text Technology | Using a Korean corpus of five regional dialects plus “standard” Korean speech, we address the problem of speech-to-text fairness in commercial technology. Will non-standard dialects have worse error rates, and what are the drivers and remedies for disparities? Comprehensive linguistic analysis of Korean dialects follows. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Jingjin | Li | Information Science | Understanding and designing technologies to support everyday mindfulness for mental wellbeing | This project aims to understand how mindfulness practitioners incorporate mindfulness practice in their daily activities with and without technology, using semi-structured interviews and design workshops. Insights generated from the study will inform the design of mindfulness tools that scaffold novice practitioners' mindfulness journey, adapt and personalize their practice for their mental wellbeing needs. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Negar | Khojasteh | Information Science | How International Students and Their Spouses use Technology to Communicate with their Families | Negar's thesis is focused on understanding the challenges international students face as they communicate with their families remotely. Her goal is to contribute to theories related to family communication as well as designing new technological tools for this population. The grant also covered expenses of Atlas.ti and otter.ai (analysis and transcription tools). |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Learning at Scale Conference at Cornell Tech | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Fernando | Delgado | Information Science | Sociotechnical Design and Governance in Automated Legal Discovery | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
Rama Adithya | Varanasi | Information Science | Digital Technologies in Occupational Wellbeing: Designing for Teachers in Low-Income Indian Schools | Varanasi conducted mixed-methods research to explore low-income teachers’ inhibitions around seeking digital social support. He is conducting virtual interviews with teachers, higher management, and non-profit personnel, to gain insights into the challenges that low-income teachers are facing to seek digital support practices during pandemic. The funding is helping him to recruit 55 participants. The study will be making an important contribution towards inequity issues that impact women teachers’ overall job security and their daily work practices. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science, Science and Technology Studies | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Antonio | Bento | On the Costs of Climate Mitigation: A Federal Clean Energy Standard with State-Level Distributional Constraints | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Daniel | Benjamin | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | University of Southern California | Collaborative Project | ||
Daniel | Benjamin | Understanding and Developing Survey-Based Measures of Well-Being | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Alice | Chen | Price School of Public Policy | The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Recession on Service Intensity in Physician Offices | This project led to the peer-reviewed publication: Li et al. “County-level unemployment rates and service intensity in primary care physician offices for Medicare patients.” Medical Care Research and Review. 2019 Aug 31:1077558719872864. It also led to a presentation at the International Health Economics Association congress. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Southern California | CCSS Grant |
Katarzyna | Bilicka | The Capacity to be Aggressive: Structured Management and Tax Behaviors or Firms | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Utah State University | CCSS Grant | ||
Yoon | Kang | Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An audit study | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | ||
Claudia | Henschke | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Amanda | Birnbaum | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Iggy E-Shien | Chang | Experiences and challenges faced by certified nursing assistants in mitigating resident-to-resident aggression in long-term care facilities: The role of race and ethnicity | The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role of race/ethnicity in resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) from the perspective of certified nursing assistants. Insights generated will help inform the design of a novel staff education intervention to mitigate and prevent race/ethnicity-related RRA.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Cary | Reid | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Madeline | Sterling | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides | 2022 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Sasha | Fahme | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Prevalence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among trauma-exposed Syrian refugee women in Beirut, Lebanon | 2021 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
David | Yankelevitz | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Tracy | Nichols | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
David | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Pinheiro | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Short and long-term influences of structural racism on cardiovascular outcomes among cancer survivors. | 2022 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Christopher | Gonzalez | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Leveraging Father-Son Relationships to Optimize Weight-Management Interventions in Hispanic Immigrant Communities | 2021 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
William | Block | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Research Division | CCSS Grant | |
William | Block | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Research Division | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | A New Jury System at Work | Our team examined the jury trial’s introduction in Neuquén, Argentina, by collecting data (questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups) from judges, lawyers, and jurors. From legal actors’ experiences, we are learning how citizens’ participation in jury trials has led to fundamental changes in trial procedures. |
2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jack | Clarke | Law | Meridian 180 Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Problem | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Sheri Lynn | Johnson | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Zachary D. | Clopton | Law | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World | This grant helped fund an international conference at Cornell Law School of feminist scholars and activists engaged in grassroots work to protect the environment; it resulted in papers published in a symposium issue of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2013. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
John H. | Blume | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Nelson | Tebbe | Law | The Effects on Children of Equality Rules for Religious Placement Agencies | Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? |
2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Steve | Yale-Loehr | Law | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Muna | Ndulo | Law | The Food and Financial Crisis and Their Impact in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals in Africa | The conference brought scholars and practitioners from abroad to explore food security and its impact on Africa. The presentations made possible the book, Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, which focus on the crises, effects on rural poverty, and recommendations to address the crises. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Reasoning and Trust | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Maria Alejandra | Anaya Torres | Law | Rights-Based Climate Litigation, Climate Mobilization, and Climate Governance: An Interdisciplinary Approach | My dissertation seeks to understand the interplay between rights-based climate litigation, climate mobilization, and climate governance at the global level. By departing from the traditional conception of judicial decisions' domestic effects, my research seeks to provide a more socio-legal approach to understanding how rulings across jurisdictions have the potential to produce effects across scales, beyond the parties to a case, the issue at stake, and the courtroom. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | QuIRI Grant |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | The Reasoning State | With time and resources from the ISS fellowship, Stiglitz conducted additional experiments and completed his book manuscript, The Reasoning State, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell Law School | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Charles | Whitehead | Law | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Political Economy and Public Law Conference | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Institute for African Development | Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
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