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Nominated by their deans, a cohort of social scientists receive research funding, course release, a semester in residence, and professional development. Contact CCSS Program Coordinator Heather Furnas with any questions.

2000 and 2010 Decennial Surname Identifiers Available in the Cornell FSRDC

A new dataset developed at the Census Bureau allows researchers to identify individuals who have the same (or very similar) surnames. They are consistent across the 2000 and 2010 Decennial data. Researchers can access these confidential data through the Cornell FSRDC.

Apply for 2025 NIH Grant Development Program Workshop Series

This program provides financial support and mentors social science researchers through the process of writing an NIH grant from concept to submission.

Important dates:

Apply for Cornell ShaRE Program Grant

The Cornell Shared Research Equipment (Cornell ShaRE) program is provided to the Cornell community through funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Up to $500K will be distributed annually, with grants for internal purchases (up to ~$150K) or cost-sharing on proposals (up to ~$300K).

The application process is simple with rapid turnaround: 2-page proposal + 1-page budget due January 13, 2025.

Decisions will be announced by March 31, 2025.

Join this webinar for an overview of the 2025 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. Learn about the curriculum, scholarships, TA positions, and more. Program discounts are made possible through CCSS’s ICPSR membership.

In The News...

“Understanding Biden's Exit and the 2024 Election: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model,” correctly forecasted the presidential outcome in all 50 states, co-authored by Peter Enns, Robert S. Harrison Director of CCSS, featuring research conducted with CCSS Cloud Computing

“Employers hold sway in immigration bureaucracy,” Chronicle article featuring Ben Rissing, CCSS Faculty Fellow (2018-19)

"Could ‘inoculation’ limit election misinformation?" Chronicle article featuring current CCSS Faculty Fellow Gordon Pennycook

2024-25 Faculty Fellows Spotlight

Meet Current Faculty Fellows

Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor of History, works on European and international history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially political and economic history. Nicholas is the author of "The Economic Weapon," a prize-winning history of economic sanctions, and a frequent commentator on geopolitics and international affairs for a number of magazines and newspapers. He is currently finishing a big narrative history of the politics and economics of expropriation of property since the Industrial Revolution.

CCSS Data Science Fellow Spotlight: Samantha De Leon Sautu

Samantha De Leon Sautu, MD is a CCSS Data Science Fellow and Ph.D. student in Human Development and Psychological Sciences. She studies patterns of autonomic nervous reactivity to social presence and their impact on long-term well-being and health, using psychophysiological methods on hand-holding paradigms for in-lab experiments and longitudinal causal inference for population data. As a fellow, she helps with educational workshops on R, Python, and biological methods for social sciences.

Did you know that CCSS workshops are a resource for students, faculty, and staff?

In our fall workshop series, 55% of attendees were graduate students and 20% were faculty. Over 90% of evaluations said they would strongly recommend or recommend the workshop they attended to others.

Missed a workshop this fall? Email socialsciences@cornell.edu to request past recordings of these sessions. The spring workshop schedule will be announced in January.

Additional Events & Opportunities

Dec 3 at 2pm, Virtual | Sustainable Food Packaging and Production | Join Hanyu Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell CALS, as she discusses sustainability as it relates to all aspects of food processing and why it’s such a critical issue.

Dec 5 at 1pm, Virtual | A Family Divided | Join Professor Daniel Van Der Vliet, Executive Director of the Smith Family Business Initiative at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, as he delves into successful strategies for individuals who have a chance to repair family rifts or find peace when reconciliation is not possible.

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