ISS Small Grant Program
Progress Reports and Media Highlights
Fall 2012
Cohort Highlight:
From Babies' Spatial Skills to Collective Bargaining, Social Science Research Gets Funding
Spring 2012
Cohort Highlight: ISS Grants Fund Research from Body Odor to Democracy
Project Description: Civic Engagement, Civil Society Organizations, and Urban Environmental Governance: Implications for the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development
PI: Shorna Allred, Natural Resources
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Targeting and Impacts of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
PI: Christopher Barrett, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the CISER Experience
PIs: Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Development Sociology, William Block, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Sarah Giroux,
Development Sociology
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Listening to the Nation: Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt
PI: Ziad Fahmy, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Education Work in China: A Comparative Study of Beijing's Separate School Systems
PI: Eli Friedman, Department of International and Comparative Labor
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Health Insurance Choice and Utilization
PI: Don Kenkel, Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Toward Sustainable Health: Modernizing Traditional Medicine in Tanzania
PI: Stacey Langwick, Anthropology
Progress Report: 2013
2012 Media
Highlight: Langwick Wins Grant to Study Intellectual Property, Traditional Medicine in Tanzania
Project Description: Innovating the Smart Grid: Organization of R&D, Standards, and the Electricity Industry
PI: Aija Leiponen, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes
PI: Jordan Matsudaira, Policy Analysis and Mangement
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Policymaking under the Shadow of Death: the Policymaking Process under the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea
PI: Andrew Mertha, Government
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa
PI: Muna Ndulo, Law and African Development
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards
PI: Valerie Reyna, Human Development
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Time-Varying Risk Preferences and Asset Prices: Evidence from Lottery Bonds
PI: Andrey Ukhov, Hotel Administration
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Platonic Friendship and Social Olfactory Cues in Human Body Odor
PI:
Vivian Zayas, Psychology
Progress Report: 2013
Fall 2011
Cohort Highlight: ISS Announces Biannual Small-Grant Awards
Project Description: Applying Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics to Narrative Images: A Study of Stone Reliefs, Miniatures, Cave Paintings, and Temple Sculptur
PI: Dorit Abusch, Linguistics
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World
PI:
Cynthia Bowman, Law
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Disentangling the Building from Behavior in Residential Energy Efficiency
PI:Howard Chong, Hotel Administration
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal
Inference and the Importance of Mechanism
PIs:
Mark Constas, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Nutritional Sciences
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing Effects on Behavior
PI:
Melissa Ferguson, Psychology
Funded with generous support by the PCCW
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens’ Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety
PI:
Gustavo Flores-Macias, Government
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Comedy and Society in Antiquity
PI:
Michael Fontaine, Classics
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: News Evidence and Political Behavior
PI: Adam Seth Levine, Government
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation
PI:
Shanjun Li,Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference
PIs:
Francesca Molinari, Economics, Jörg Stoye, Economics
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7
PI:
Sarah Murray, Linguistics
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell
PI:
David Pelletier, Nutritional Sciences
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions
PI:
Henry Schneider, Economics
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design
PI:
Phoebe Sengers, Information Science and Science & Technology Studies
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Ethical Technologies
of Corporate Rule: A Mining Company in Postauthoritarian Indonesia
PI:
Marina Welker, Anthropology
Progress Report: 2013
Project Description: Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis
PI:
Wendy Wolford, Development Sociology
Progress Report: 2013
Spring 2011
Cohort Highlight: ISS Awards Grants to Social Scientists
Project Description: Clean Water, Health and the Market Mechanism: How
Effective is the Market at Allocating Health Goods?
PI: James Berry, Economics
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games?
PI: Aaron Bodoh-Creed, Economics
Progress Report: 2012
Conference Description: The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation
PIs: David Brown, Development Sociology, Rod Howe, Development Sociology, John Sipple, Education
2011 Media Highlight: 'State of Upstate' Conference June 8-9 Tackles Regional Development, Public Policy
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description:
Psychobiology of the Formation of Social Bonds
PI: Richard Depue, Human Ecology
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Refiguring Village Studies: New Approaches to Agrarian Change in South Asia
Shelley Feldman, Development Sociology
Progress Report: 2012
Conference Description: Rice and Language Across
Asia: Crops, Movement, and Social Change
Organizer: Magnus Fiskesjö, Anthropology
2011 Media Highlight: Science and Humanities Wed to Explore Origins and Consequences of Domesticated Rice
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Developing Computational Supports for Frame Reflection
PI: Geri Gay, Communication
2012 Media Highlight: Word choices on political issues reveal ways of thinking
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch:
A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication
PI: Michael Goldstein, Psychology
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Considering Compensation: An Interdisciplinary Research Conference for New Scholars
PI: Kevin Hallock, Labor Economics and HR Studies
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Commodity Prices in the Presence of Long-run Economic
Relationships
PI:
Peng (Peter) Liu, Hotel Administration
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences
PI:
Corinna Loeckenhoff, Human Development
2011 Highlights: Two ISS Small Grant PIs Receive 2011 Affinito-Stewart Grants, Study: Older Adults More Willing to Wait for Financial Gain
Progress Report: 2012
Conference Description: Gas Drilling, Sustainability & Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground
PI: Keith Porter, Law
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Institutional Psychotherapy and the Reaction Against "Concentrationism”
PI: Camille Robcis, History
Progress Report: 2012
Conference Description: Theorizing in the Social Sciences
Organizer: Richard Swedberg, Sociology
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Credit Card Reforms and Consumers’ Use of Credit Cards
PI: Sharon Tennyson, PAM
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights and Justice in Eighteenth Century India
PI: Robert Travers, History
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Child Custody Decisions in Disadvantaged Families: A Pilot Study
PI: Maureen Waller, PAM
Progress Report: 2012
Fall 2010
Cohort Highlight: Institute for the Social Sciences Awards Interdisciplinary Research Grants
Project Description: Can an Improved Sales Contract Speed Adoption of Improved Stoves?
PIs: Garrick Blalock, Applied Economics and Management and David Levine, University of California
2010 Media Highlight: New Sales Approach for Improved Cookstoves selected for 2011 Academic Venture Fund Awards
Progress Report: 2012
Conference Description: Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows
PIs:
Debra A. Castillo, Latin American Studies, Mary Jo Dudley, Cornell Farmworker Program, and Sofia Villenas, Latino Studies
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description:
The Interaction of Syntax, Semantics and Prosody in Slovenian
PIs: Molly Diesing, Linguistics, Draga Zec, Linguistics
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Limited Rationality and the Strategic Environment: An Experimental Study
PIs: Ori Heffetz, JGSM, Michael Waldman,
JGSM, Kristen B. Cooper, AEM
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why?
PIs: Sheri Lynn Johnson, Law, Christopher Seeds, Law, John Blume, Law
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World’s Most Affordable Car
PIs: Kent Kleinman, Architechture, Art and Planning, & Mary N. Woods, Architechture, Art and Planning
2011 Highlight:
ISS Small Grant Project Explores Nano Car's Social Impact & Design
2010 Highlight: Exhibit Featured in Architech Magazine
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational
Socio-Economic Mobility
PIs: Daniel R. Lichter, PAM, Dean R. Lillard, PAM, Rebekka Christopoulou, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description:
Do International Bond Markets Diversify Portfolio Risk?
PI: Edith X. Liu, AEM
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description:What Drives the Stock Price Runups? Insider Trading vs. Market Anticipation
PI: Qingzhong Ma, Hotel Administration
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: The Coevolution of Individuals and Their Social Setting: A Multi-site Longitudinal Study
PIs: Brian Rubineau,
ILR, David Lazer, Northeastern University, Michael Neblo, Ohio State University
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research
PIs: Brian Wansink, AEM &
Kevin M. Kniffin, AEM
Progress Report: 2012
Spring 2010
Cohort Highlight: ISS Awards Grants to Cornell Researchers
Project Description: Expertise Recognition in Cross-Cultural Collaboration: The Impact of Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Communication
PIs: Natalya Bazarova, Communication & Connie Yuan, Communication
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Preventing Deviant Internet Behavior: An Application of Prospect Theory
PIs: Sahara Byrne, Communication & Sunny "Sun Jung" Kim, Communication
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description:
Leveraging the ASHEcon Conference at Cornell to Promote Exchange Across the Social Sciences
PI:
John Cawley, Policy Analysis and Management
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Overseas Charity in Early Modern Europe: Empathy, Obligation, and Global Networks
PI: Duane Corpis, History
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: Design Tactics and the Informalized City
Organizers:
Jeremy Foster, Landscape Architecture, Lily Chi, Architecture, Art and Planning, Neema Kudva, City and Regional Planning, and Caroline O'Donnell, Architecture
2012 Conference Website
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: The Duality of Telecom Policymaking:
The Case of Internet Governance Debates
PIs: Tarleton Gillespie, Communication & Dimitry Epstein, Communication
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: An Exploration of the Effect of Design Interventions on Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Workplace
PI: Ying Hua, Design & Environmental Design
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Exploring Trans-disciplinary Research in
Environmental Education and Related Fields
PIs: Marianne Krasny, Natural Resources, Janis Dickinson, Natural Resources & Justin Dillon, London
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Engaging Images: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa
PI: Daniel Magaziner, History
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change
Organizer: Fouad Makki, Development Sociology
2012 Conference Website
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias
PI:
Poppy McLeod, Communication
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Kin and Kingdom: Using GIS to Understand the Relationship Between Tribes and Elections in Jordan
David Patel, Government
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Fluid Empires: Water Management Across the French Mediterranean
PI: Sara Pritchard, Science & Technology Studies
Co-sponsored with generous support by the Einaudi Center
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White
Wine Purchase Decisions
PIs:
Todd Schmit, Applied Economics and Management, Bradley Rickard, Applied Economics and Management, & Anna Mansfield, Food Science
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Eating Network Partners
PI: Jeffrey Sobal, Nutritional Science
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: The Causal Mechanisms of the Democratic Peace
PIs: Jessica Weeks, Government, & Michael Tomz, Stanford University
Progress Report: 2011
Fall 2009
Cohort Highlight: Small Grants Awarded to Social Scientists
Conference Description: 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Conference
Organizer: Chris Anderson, Hotel
2011 Article: A Comparison of Different Demand Models for Joint Inventory-Pricing Decisions
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery
Organizers: Ed Baptist, History, Rafael Marquese, Sao Paulo and Dale Tomich, Binghamton University
2010 Conference Program
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making
PIs: Vicki Bogan, Applied Economics and Management, David Just, Applied Economics and Management, and
Chekitan Dev, Hotel School
2011 Article: Team Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change
PIs: Ann Forsyth, Architecture Art & Planning, Mark Morris, Architecture, Art & Planning , and Mike Silver, Metropolis Magazine
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace
Organizers: Rebecca Givan, Industrial Labor Relations, Peter Lazes, Industrial Labor Relations and William Sonnenstuhl, Industrial Labor Relations
2010 Conference Website
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: The Effects of Incentive Framing and
Probabilistic Management Audits on Fraudulent Behavior
PI: James Hesford, Hotel
Profress Report: 2011
Conference Description: Employment Relations in Multinational Corporations Conference
Organizer: Sarosh Kuruvilla, Industrial Labor Relations
2010 Conference Website
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Who Knows Best: Preschoolers’ Causal Learning from Experts in Light of Their Own Play Experience
PI: Tamar Kushnir, Human Development
2012 Media Highlight:
Preschoolers at Play Show Science Skills
2010 Media Highlight: Preschoolers Use Statistics To Understand Others
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study
PIs: Barbara Lust, Human Devlopment, Janet Sherman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Suzanne Flynn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alexander Immerman, Cornell Language Acquisition Lab
2011 Media Highlight: Trouble Forming Sentences May Be Early Alzheimer's Marker
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Rectification, Thought Reform, and Political Education in Khmer Rouge Liberated Zones (1970-1975) and Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
PI:
Andrew Mertha, Government
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: Bringing STS into Environmental History
Organizers: Sara Pritchard, Science & Techology Studies, Dolly Jørgensen, Norwegian Universoty of Science and Technology and Finn Arne Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: Workshop on Grammar Induction
Organizers:
Mats Rooth, Linguistics and Draga Zec, Linguistics
2009 Conference Website
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan
PI: Steven Sangren, Anthropology
Progress Report: 2011
Conference Description: A Mini-Conference on Gender Inequality in Science, Math, Engineering, and Behavioral Science Occupations
Organizer: Sharon Sassler, Policy Analysis & Management
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description:
Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces
Stephan Schmidt, City & Regional Planning and Jeremy Nemeth, University of Colorado
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Health Insurance and Changes in Marital Status
PI: Kosali Simon, Policy Analysis and Managment
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: “Citizenship Effects,” 'Interest Convergence,” and Interest Group Litigants’ Strategy: Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York
PI: Anna Marie Smith, Government
Progress Report: 2011
Spring 2009
Project Description: Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise
PI: Marya Besharov, ILR
Progress Report: 2010
Conference Description: Re-evaluating Africa and World War II
Organizers: Judith Byfield, Africana Studies, Carolyn Brown, Rutgers University, Gregory Mann, Columbia University and Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State University
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: Rural Schools: Planning and Decisionmaking in Times of Fiscal Stress
PIs: Joe Francis, Development Sociology and John Sipple, Education
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Behavioral Tendencies in Newsvendor Decision Making: Capturing the Chinese Perspective
PI: Srinagesh Gavirneni, Johnson Graduate School of Management
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Longitudinal Effects of Computer-Mediated Self-Presentations on Scholastic Self-Concept and Achievement
PI: Jeff Hancock, Communication
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge?
PIs: John Hale, Liguistics, Timothy O'Donnell, Harvard University, and Jiwon Yun, Linguistics
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Novelty and Popularity in Markets for News
PIs: Ben Ho, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Peter Liu, Hotel Administration, and Fang Wu, HP Lab
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Agglomeration, Product Differentiation, and Firm Entry
PIs: Renata Kosova, Hotel Administration
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes
PIs: Karel Mertens, Economics and Morten Ravn, University of London
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Education and Changing Patterns of Fertility Over The Life Course
PI: Kelly Musick, Policy Analysis and Management
Progress Report: 2012
Conference Description:The Food and Financial Crises and their Impact on the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa
Organizers:
Muna Ndulo, Law School, and David Lee, Applied Economics and Management
Progress Report: 2012
Project Description: Workshop on the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis
PIs: Thomas Pepinsky, Government
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood
PIs: Elizabeth Peters, Policy Analysis and Management, Claudio Lucarelli, Policy Analysis and Management, Joseph Sabia, American University and Joseph Price, Brigham Young University
Porgress Report: 2011
Conference Description: The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans
Organizers: Elaine Wethington, Human Development and Rachel Dunifon, Policy, Analysis and Management
Progress Report: 2009
Fall 2008
Project Description: Testing the Two Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences
PIs: Daniel J. Benjamin, Department of Economics, Sebastian A. Brown, Ph.D. Student, Harvard, and Jesse M. Shapiro, University of Chicago
Progress Report: 2010
Project Description: Paying for Climate Change: The Role of Information and Social Preferences on Willingness to Pay
PIs: Antonio M. Bento, Department of Applied Economics and Management and Benjamin Ho, Johnson Graduate School of Management
Progress Report: 2010
Project Description: Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families
PIs: Rachel E. Dunifon, Department of Policy Analysis and Management , Kimberly Kopko, Department of Policy analysis and Management, and Karl Pillemer, Department of Human Developmen
Progress Report: 2010
Project Description: Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life
PIs: Shelley Feldman, Department of Development Sociology, Charles Geisler, Department of Development Sociology and Gayatri Menon, Department of Development Sociology
Pogress Report: 2009
Project Description: The Implicit Operation of Ideology
PIs: Melissa Ferguson, Department of Psychology, Travis J. Carter, University of Chicago and Ran R. Hassin of Hebrew University.
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Mobile Social Networking in Urban Environments
PI: Lee Humphreys, Department of Communication
Progress Report: 2010
Conference Description: Conference Proposal: The World Food Crisis: Event or Conjuncture? (April 3-4, 2008)
Organizer:
Philip McMichael, Department of Development Sociology
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing
PIs: Sean Nicholson, Department of Policy Analysis and Management and Michael Waldman, Johnson Graduate School of Management
Progress Report: 2010
Project Description: Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity Rates
PIs: Jeff Niederdeppe, Department of Communication and Michael A. Shapiro, Department of Communication
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems
PIs: Stephen S. Robertson, Department of Human Development and John Guckenheimer, Departments of Mathematics and Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
Progress Report: 2010
Project Description: Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict
PIs: Jessica Weeks, Department of Government
Progress Report: 2010
Spring 2008
Project Description:
Effect of Maternal Choline Intake On Neurocognitive Development In Infants
PIs:
Marie Caudill, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Barbara Strupp, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Richard Canfield, Division of Nutritional Sciences, and Eva Pressman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester
Project Update: 2010
Project Description: Give & Take: Incentive Framing in Compensation Contracts
PI:
James W. Hesford, School of Hotel Administration
Project Report: 2009
Project Description:
A Stitch in Time: Evaluating the Effects of an AP Incentive Program on College Outcomes
PI:
C. Kirabo Jackson, Department of Labor Economics
Progress Report: 2010
Conference Description: Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism
Organizer:
Karim-Aly S. Kassam, Department of Natural Resources and American Indian Program
Progress Report: 2010
Project Description: Conference of the Cornell Law School: Law Markets & Social Equity
PI:
Annelise Riles, School of Law and Department of Anthropology
Progress Report: 2010
Project:
Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An Audit Study
PI's:
Brian Rubineau, Department of Organizational Behavior and Yoon Kang, Clinical Skills Center, Weill Cornell Medical College
Progress Report: 2010
Project: Poverty, Equity, and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School District
PI's: John W. Sipple, Department of Education, Lisa McCabe, Department of Human Development, and Judith Ross-Bernstein, Department of Human Development
Progress Report: 2011
Fall 2007
Cohort Highlight: Social Scientists Receive Small Grant Awards
Conference Description: Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion
Organizer:
Peter Enns, Government
Progress Report: 2011
Project Description: Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening
PIs: Katherine McComas, Department of Communication, Sahara Byrne, Department of Communication, Natalie Bazarova, Department of Communication, Zheng Yang, Department of Communication, Claudia Henschke, Department of Radiology, Weil Cornell Medical College, and David Yankelevitz, Department of Radiology, Weil Cornell Medical College
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description:
Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies
PIs:
Deni Ruggeri, Department of Landscape Architecture and Paula Horrigan, Department of Landscape Architecture
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description: Revisiting the Relation Between the Private and the Public “Spheres” After Welfare: A Feminist Legal Studies Project
PI: Anna Marie Smith, Department of Government
Progress Report: 2008
Project Description: Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation
PI: Pamela S. Tolbert, Department of Organizational Behavior, Quinetta M. Roberson, Department of Organizational Behavior and Esta R. Bigler, Department of Labor & Employment Law Programs
Progress Report: 2008
Project Description:
A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry
PIs:
Rohit Verma, Operations Management, School of Hotel Administration and Liana Victorino, Department of Management, University of Utah
Progress Report: 2008
Spring 2007
Cohort Highlight: Institute for the Social Sciences Awards 12 New Small Grants
Project Description: Chaos and Children's Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms
PI: Gary Evans, Departments of Design & Environmental Anaysis & Human Development
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: What’s a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences
PIs: Ori Heffetz, Johnson School of Management and Moses Shayo Department of Economics, Hebrew University
Project Report: 2009
Project Description: Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood
PI: Anthony Ong, Department of Human Development, Cary Reid, Weill Cornell Medical College, Elaine Wethington, Departments of Human Development & Sociology and Karl Pillemer, Department of Human Development & Weill Cornell Medical College
Progress Report: 2008
Project Description: Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock Industries
PI: Todd Schmit and William Tomek, Department of Applied Economics and Management
Progress Report: 2008
Project Description: Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody
PI: Michael Wagner, Department of Linguistics
Progress Report: 2008
Fall 2006
Project Description: Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Eastern Europe during WWII
PI: Holly Case Department of History
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description:
Structures of Social Interaction In Language Acquisition
PIs: Shimon Edelman, Heidi Waterfall, Jennifer Schwade, & Michael Goldstein, Department of Psychology
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: Grounding the Digital Copyrights Controversies
PI: Tarleton Gillespie, Department of Communication
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description: Women and the State in Europe Speaker Series
PI: Rebecca Givan, Industrial and Labor Relations and Sydney Van Morgan, Sociology and Institute for European Studies
Progress Report: 2007
Spring 2006
Project Description: Avoiding and Escaping Persistent Poverty
PI: Christopher B. Barrett, Department of Applied Economics and Management
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description: Rethinking Sustainability and Development: A Return to Vicos, Peru
PI: Billie Jean Isbell, Department of Anthropology
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: Interagency Cooperation in Social Services for Families and Children: Application of Group Dynamics Theory
PI: Poppy McLeod, Department of Communication
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description: Picking Stocks for Fun or Buying Stock Funds: The Portfolio Choices of U.S. Individual Investors
PI: David Ng, Department of Applied Economics and Management
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description: Assessing Gender Differences in Time Consistency
PI: Jeffrey Prince, Department of Applied Economics and Management
Progress Report: 2007
Project Description: Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges?
PIs: Jeff Rachlinski and & Sheri Johnson, Cornell Law School
Progress Report: 2009
Project Description: Workshop on Projectification, Governance and Sustainability: US-EU Synthesis and Comparison
PI: Steven Wolf, Department of Natural Resources
Progress Report: 2007
