Nine Cornell faculty members have been awarded Affinito-Stewart research grants for the 2018-19 academic year.
The program, administered by the President鈥檚 Council of Cornell Women (PCCW), some of whom are pictured right, was established in 1990 to help the university increase the number of women in tenured faculty positions. It provides grants up to $10,000 for nontenured Cornell female faculty members to complete research already underway or in initiating new research projects that will provide the evidence of scholarship necessary for successful tenure submission. To date, more than $1.3 million has been awarded to more than 250 female researchers at Cornell.
In 2018, the council awarded a total of $87,504 in project funding to the recipients. The proposals were reviewed and rated by Cornell faculty members from across the university and by the PCCW Grants Committee. Criteria for the review process were scholarly merit, research design, feasibility and likely relevance to promotion to tenure.
The 2018 recipients and their research projects are:
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Rachel Aleks, assistant professor of labor relations, law and history, 鈥淪tronger Together? Gender Spillover Effects in Unions鈥;
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Fatma Baytar, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design, 鈥3D Virtual Garments: Exploring an Online Mass-Customization Framework鈥;
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assistant professor of economics, 鈥淲hen Trringo Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of Equipment Rental Services鈥;
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Brooke Erin Duffy, assistant professor of communication, 鈥淚nvisible Labor in the Social Media Economy: Gender and Social Inequalities in an Emergent Workforce鈥;
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assistant professor of psychology, 鈥淭he Changing Face of Whiteness: How Do Demographic Shifts Alter Strategic Race Perception and Affect Discrimination?鈥;
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Tashara Leak, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, 鈥淔acilitators and Barriers to Participating in After School Activities: Perspectives of Low-Income Urban Youth鈥;
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Sabine Mann, assistant professor in population medicine and diagnostic sciences, 鈥淗eat-treatment of Bovine Colostrum and Associated Changes in the Proteome of the Newborn Calf鈥;
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Jooyoung Shin, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design, 鈥淢istaken Identity: Cross-cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Fashion鈥; and
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Jeongmin Song, assistant professor in microbiology and immunology, 鈥淏inding Affinities of Neutralizing Antibodies to Typhoid Toxin.鈥
For more information on the PCCW grants program, including highlighting the research and broad scope of accomplishments of the 2017 Affinito-Stewart grant recipients, visit the or e-mail pccw@cornell.edu.
2019 PCCW GRANT PROPOSALS SOUGHT
Proposals for 2019 Affinito-Stewart research grants are being accepted through Feb. 8; information is available on the .
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