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 ascending | Grant Type |
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Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Misha | Inniss-Thompson | Psychology | Exploring Black Girl Literacies: A Qualitative Study of Book Clubs & Identity Development | This phenomenological qualitative study explores how Black adolescent girls enact Black Girl Literacies (ways of knowing, doing, and creating to affirm themselves; (Price-Dennis et al., 2017) in a monthly book club focused on Black girl-centered young adult literature. This study will leverage focus group discussions, participant observation, and sociodemographic surveys to examine the following inquiry: what role can a book club space play in fostering the development of self-definition and critical consciousness among Black girls? |
2022 | Fall | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jeffery | Sobal | 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 |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Insurance Competition and Network Offerings | This grant supported the development of a paper, “Narrow Physician Networks, Switching Costs, and Product Variety in Employer Markets,” which received a revise and resubmit request at the American Economic Review, one of the top journals in economics. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Nathan | Spreng | Human Development | Brain Network Dynamics of Goal-Directed Cognition and Behavior Across the Adult Life Span | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jay | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Roles of Positive Emotions in Human-Product Interactions | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Human Centered Design | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | Assessing the Consequences of Place-Based Policies for Communities and Individuals | Tach’s 2016 fellowship resulted in a $500,000 grant from the Gates Foundation, on which she is co-investigator, titled “Assessing the Impact of Place-Based and Place-Conscious Interventions on Economic Mobility.” Tach’s fellowship research also resulted in the publication of “Public Housing Redevelopment, Neighborhood Change, and the Restructuring of Urban Inequality” in the American Journal of Sociology. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | STEM Retention and Job Satisfaction in the COVID-19 Era | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Minimum Staffing Legalization and the Quality of Health Care: Evidence on Effectiveness and Necessity from a Natural Experiment | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Peter | Rich | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Hidden Black-White Disparities in the Pursuit of Educational Opportunity | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | 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. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Secular Trends in Puberty and Mental Health | Jane Mendleís time at ISS helped her complete two journal articles, write a grant proposal funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development, and submit a proposal for a textbook on Developmental Psychopathology that will be published by Macmillan. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Meaning Making and Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Teens | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Angela | Odoms-Young | Nutritional Sciences | Examining dietary disparities in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children: Implications for Lowering Cardiovascular Risk in African American Children | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Lisa | McCabe | Human Development | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. |
2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Felicia | Setiono | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and Barriers of Implementing Healthy Retail Programs Targeting Adolescents' Food/beverage Purchasing Behaviors in New York City: A Qualitative Study | Understanding facilitators/barriers to implementation of healthy retail programs that target adolescent food purchasing behaviors through semi-structured interviews with New York City-based leaders in retail interventions (n=30). The study results can inform policymakers to develop effective retail programs that improve adolescents' purchasing behavior, diet, and health. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Carolina | Osorio Gil | Development Sociology | Story-Based Theater and Decolonial Participatory Methodologies as Capability Approach in Praxis: A Case Study with Communities Affected by Hydroelectric Dam Projects in Chiapas, Mexico and Antioquia, Colombia | Fieldwork in Antioquia, Colombia for: 1) implementing story-based participatory theater workshops for communities affected by the Hidroituango dam project in Antioquia, Colombia; and 2) conducting interviews with Colombian university faculty and PhD students in public universities in the region of affected communities. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Child Custody Decisions in Disadvantaged Families: A Pilot Study | This small grant contributed to a larger USDA (NIFA) grant and several journal articles. The grant supported qualitative data collection and the analysis of survey data to examine why some disadvantaged families establish legal orders in court while others avoid the family court system. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | 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 | |
Alan | Mathois | 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 |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Enhancing the Community Impact of School-Based Health Centers in Rural New York | The ISS grant provided the necessary support to secure a data agreement between the Bassett (NY Healthcare system and Cornell’s CRADIC system. We are now analyzing nearly 4 million records over 7 years to measure the impact of SBHCs on the healthcare behavior of residents in five counties. We recently secured a Federal Hatch grant to continue our analyses in partnership with Bassett. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations of Students | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Felix | Thoemmes | Human Development | Causal mediation analysis in the presence of latent heterogeneity | This grant laid some of the foundation for a federal grant application (IES). This grant was submitted, but unfortunately was not funded, and a resubmission was not attempted. Instead a different research line was submitted and funded by IES. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Teens’ Meaning Making and Mental Health | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Navika | Gangrade | Nutritional Sciences | A qualitative exploration of factors that influence snacking behaviors among culturally diverse adolescents from New York City | Gangrade recruited research participants for a virtual study exploring factors that influence snacking behaviors among adolescents from low-income, urban environments. The funding enabled her to conduct 30 phone interviews with adolescents from low-income neighborhoods in NYC during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Janis | Whitlock | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Ru | Liu | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and barriers to implementing a food pantry-based produce prescription program in New York City | Through semi-structured interviews, this project aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a food pantry-based Produce Prescription program in New York City from stakeholders’ perspectives. The findings will inform the design and implementation of community-clinic-partnered health interventions. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Douglas | Miller | Policy Analysis and Management | Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion | We develop a machine-learning prediction model for tax evasion. The model will be used to produce recommendations improving the targeting of auditing resources. Additionally, the prediction model will be used to construct a novel measure of manager productivity in the government service sector. |
2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's License Suspensions, Legal Debt, and the Reproduction of Inequality | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Reah | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Exploring Stigma in NY's Food Assistance Landscape | Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study aims to explore perceptions of and experiences with stigma among NY residents who receive or are eligible for SNAP benefits. Findings will be used to develop a survey measure on stigma to examine its association with key nutrition outcomes. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Per | Pinstrup-Andersen | Nutritional Sciences | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Physical and Psychological Change Across the Menstrual Cycle | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Dean R. | Lillard | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Robertson | Human Development | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marlen | Gonzalez | Psychology | The Neuroecology of Space Use, Belonging, and URM Experience in Higher Education | Submitted a discussed NIH grant, submitted and obtained IRB approval for the proposed project, began working with CCSS and Redcloud to architect a cloud data pipeline for MRI data |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program |
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