The has awarded five seed grants and four small grants to Cornell faculty members to support their international research. Recipients come from seven departments in six Cornell colleges.
Seed grant recipients
- Jennifer Downs, Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medical College: 鈥淕lobal Women鈥檚 Health Research Conference: Establishing the First Cohort of Female Global Scholars,鈥 $10,000;
- Shannon Gleeson, Department of Labor Relations, Law and History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations: 鈥淭ransnational Approaches to Immigrant Labor Rights Advocacy,鈥 $10,000;
- , Department of Classics, 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频: 鈥淏uilding a Timeframe with Dendrochronology for Byzantine Cultural Heritage in Cyprus,鈥 $10,000;
- Aleksandr Mergold, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture, Art and Planning鈥: 鈥淢odeling Spolia: Visualizing Mechanisms and Phenomena in Material Reuse,鈥 $10,000; and
- Katja Poveda, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life 麻豆视频: 鈥淓ffect of Landscape Simplification on Pollinators in the Tropical Andes,鈥 $10,000.
Small grant recipients
- , Department of Classics, 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频: 鈥溾橞etter to Dwell in Your Own Small House鈥: Households of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt in Context,鈥 $5,000;
- Lourdes Casanova, Emerging Markets Institute, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management: 鈥淓merging Multinationals in a Changing World,鈥 $5,000;
- , Department of Classics, 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频: 鈥淭eaching Ettore Ferrari鈥檚 monument to Giordano Bruno,鈥 $600; and
- , Department of Government, 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频: 鈥淓ndline Survey for Election Violence Project in Liberia,鈥 $5,000.
The seed grant program supports the preparation of external funding requests, and the small grant program supports and co-sponsors conferences, workshops, seminars and other events.
Selections for both grant programs were based on the projects鈥 potential to advance research by junior faculty, to bring long-term discernible benefits to international studies at Cornell and to conform to the highest academic standards.
Faculty and programs are expected to use the awards within the coming year to mobilize additional external support for their projects. The Einaudi Center works closely with the recipients to support these efforts.
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