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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Adam | Anderson | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Maria | Fitzpatrick | 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 | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Using VR to Explore Young Children's Transfer of Learning | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Spatial Language and the Development of Spatial Cognition | This project formed the basis of a NSF grant, funded in 2018, and a major publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2020). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural and Behavioral Differences in Initiation and Perserverance in Effortful Behavior | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Cross-linguistic Differences in Infants' Ability to Learn Labels | Led to publications in Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Psychology: General plus funding of an NSF grant. |
2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | COVID_19 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 |
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
bethany | Ojalehto | Human Development | Cognitive Drivers of Environmental DeCornell College of Computing and Information Scienceion Making: Mobilizing Indigenous Ecocentric Conceptual Perspectives in Diverse Contexts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
Kosali | Simon | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Insurance and Changes in Marital Status | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Reah Catherine | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group 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 | |
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 |
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 | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | 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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Barbara | Strupp | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Environmental barriers and facilitators of health-promoting and equitable youth-friendly communities | This study examines the how the community built environment impacts the development and well-being of youth in 2 US cities, and their experience of their community as youth-friendly. Potential inequities in the provision of environmental resources which support positive youth development will also be examined. |
2022 | Fall | 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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools: A Pilot Study of the Association between Neighborhood and School Composition | This collaborative demographic analysis resulted in the publication of “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice” in _City and Community_ and “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods” in _Sociological Science_. | 2013 | Spring | Co-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 | 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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 | 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 |
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 | |
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 |
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