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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Judith | Ross-Bernstein | 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 |
Nicholas | Sanders | Economics | Environmental Justice and the Differential Effects of Pollution: The Role of Place, Income, and Resources | Nicholas Sanders produced research on influenza, pollution, and related health effects by socioeconomic status, to be published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He prepared research on lead exposure and educational outcomes by race, which he is in process of revising for publication. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Zhuan | Pei | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
David | Sahn | 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 | |
Saleh | Kalantari | Human Centered Design | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Reimagining Recess: Examining the Impacts of Schoolyard 'Loose Parts Recess' Programs on the Outdoor Play Behaviors of School Age Children | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Designing developmentally-supportive play environments: Testing and refinement of an outdoor playspace audit tool | The proposed work will contribute to the development of a validated outdoor playspace audit tool. Through this initial mixed-methods testing and preliminary validation of a draft tool at 6-8 pilot sites the work will support the final refinement, testing, and publication of this valuable research and design tool. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | The Effects of Changes in Personal, Societal, and Political Contexts on Well-Being and Everyday Activities: Design and analysis of open-ended surveys | This project will study open-ended survey data for tracking and explaining well-being before and after major personal and societal changes. It will construct and validate measures of well-being using replicable artificial intelligence and create multiple measures from a single open-ended response to increase cost-effectiveness. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | Pre-Marital Cohabitation and Diverging Destinies, Gender and Class Differences in Life Trajectories and Family Formation | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management, Sociology | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Establishing a community advisory board (CAB) of child nutrition policymakers, CACFP stakeholders, ECE staff, Registered Dietitians, and parents of preschoolers to design a multi-level intervention to promote preschoolers' nutrient-dense food consumption in CACFP-participating ECE programs. | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Parents’ Time with Children and Subjective Well-being | This project led to a stream of papers on parental well-being in the context of time-intensive, child-centered, and unequal parenting, including “How Parents Fare: Mothers' and Fathers' Subjective Well-Being in Time with Children” in American Sociological Review (Musick et al., 2016). | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Karl | Pillemer | Psychology | Linking Families and Community Institutions: Testing the Partners in Care Intervention | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Emma | Murrugarra | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Karl | Pillemer | Human Development | 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 |
Karl | Pillemer | 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 |
Adriana | Reyes | Policy Analysis and Management | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Remember COVID-19: Enhancing Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Diverse Populations Through the Lens of Memory | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | 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 College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Dividing Lines: School District Boundaries and the Geography of Unequal Opportunity | Rich’s fellowship enabled a major data collection effort to identify barriers to educational opportunity. A detailed block-level analysis reveals how much and where administrative policies create excess opportunity constraints for marginalized populations nationwide. Several research papers and a follow-up external grant proposal are in progress. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing risk factors for type 2 diabetes among adolescent girls from low-income backgrounds | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Elizabeth | Peters | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Jing | Li | Healthcare Research and 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | How Housing and Labor Market Conditions Influence the Progression of Romantic Relationships | One paper from this grant has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at Journal of Marriage & Family. A second paper, based on restricted data, is delayed as the RDC has been closed since March due to COVID. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | 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 | |
Cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Richard | Patterson | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Will | Hobbs | Psychology | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | The Fourth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: New Developments in Aging, Emotion, and Health | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Claudio | Lucarelli | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Zeynab | Jouzi | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Co-production of knowledge for designing and developing of support services in transitional housing in New York City. | New York City has the largest number of sheltered homelessness in the country. This study will utilize the co-production of knowledge approach to collaborate with the residents of a transitional housing center in NYC, to design the appropriate supportive system to empower and prepare residents for a successful transition to their permanent housing. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Michael | Lovenheim | Policy Analysis and Management | School Quality Information and the Choice Environment: Evidence from Online School Search Behavior | This project led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Economics of Education Review. The paper has garnered attention and is having an impact on the literature. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Examining Relationships Between Neighborhood Walkability and Health Behaviors and Outcomes | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Corinna | Loeckenhoff | Human Development | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Representation and Visual Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs | The 2018 fellowship allowed Zhuan Pei to start the project, and he has recently completed a working paper with coauthors. Through the fellowship, Zhuan met Prof. Sahara Byrne, who generously gave him access to her eyetracking lab for the project. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Reut | Shachnai | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Jaleesa | Reed | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Assess the Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program for SNAP Participants | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS 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 | ||
Jaleesa | Reed | Human Centered Design | Investigating Store Experiences at the Black Beauty Supply Store | This project investigates two Black beauty supply stores in Syracuse, NY from the perspective of store owners, employees, and customers. Using observation, surveys, and interviews, this study analyzes the relationship between location, Black American beauty culture, and racial/ethnic groups related to the Black beauty supply store.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
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