Innovative Research Project Grants | Working Groups | Grant Preparation | Other Opportunities
Research funding is available from the BLCC Innovative Research Program. Cornell faculty are eligible to receive small grants of up to $7,500 in support of their research on life course related issues. The BLCC also offers grant preparation assistance to faculty members who are submitting grants through the center.
- to promote collaborative, multidisciplinary research on life course, aging, child development and family studies, and related policy topics, and
- to enhance the likelihood of investigators’ achievement of external funding.
Center funds (up to $7,500) are available for faculty with an existing research proposal in hand or one already, or about to be, submitted to an external funding agency. The Innovative Research Project award can be used: (1) to support pilot/feasibility studies that render the larger proposal more competitive, (2) as a matching grant, or (3) as a means of beginning a proposed research program currently being evaluated by a government agency or private foundation.
Applications may be submitted by full-time university faculty and research associates across the university engaged in social science research (visiting scholars excluded). Multidisciplinary teams of investigators are especially encouraged to apply.
For details on the award criteria and the application process, click here.
DANIEL T. LICHTER
Director, Bronfenbrenner Center
BLCC, Beebe Hall
254-8557
dtl28@cornell.edu
or
RHODA MEADOR
Assistant Director, Bronfenbrenner Center
254-5360
rhm2@cornell.edu
The 2009 BLCC Innovative Research Project Grant recipients are:
- The Role of Affect in Temporal Discounting Across the Adult Life Span, Corinna E. Loeckenhoff, Human Development
- Education and Changing Patterns of Fertility over The Life Course, Kelly Musick, Policy Analysis and Management
- Entry and Retention of Women in the Sciences: A Cohort Comparison, Sharon Sassler, Yael Levitte, Jennifer Glass, Policy Analysis and Management
The 2008 BLCC Innovative Research Project Grant recipients were:
- Older Workers’ Displacement and Mobility, John Abowd, Labor Economics
- Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease and in Healthy Elderly: A Pilot Study, Barbara Lust, Human Development
- Fertility, Schooling, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Outcomes, David Sahn, Division of Nutritional Science
- The Dynamics of Marital Status and Body Weight Over the Life Course, Jeffery Sobal, Division of Nutritional Science
Since Spring 1992, we have awarded 60 grants; 50 to faculty within the College and 10 to faculty from other Colleges. Of the 50 Human Ecology Faculty recipients, at least 25 subsequently received outside funding from a federal agency or foundation.