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Reminder: Proposals Due March 10 for CCSS Data Science Fellowships

CCSS is hiring two Data Science Fellows for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year:

Workshop Instructor
AI Tools and Qualitative Research Fellow

This program is designed to provide PhD students with an opportunity to enhance their skills in a collaborative setting. Fellows receive tuition, stipend, and health care and come from across the social sciences.

Announcing the 2025-26 Faculty Fellows!

Congratulations to the 12 faculty across seven colleges that will join next year’s cohort of CCSS Faculty Fellows. Meet the fellows and learn about their research projects.

QuIRI Small Grants Proposals Due March 12

PhD students (advanced to candidacy), postdocs, and faculty are eligible to apply for up to $2,000 to support qualitative research.

Apply for Panel Study for Income Dynamics User Workshop by April 21

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), launched in 1968, is the world's longest-running multigenerational household panel study exploring various scientific and policy questions. This five-day workshop is available for just $100 to admitted attendees. Sessions will cover the core PSID interview, special topics modules, supplemental studies, and new genomics data collected from 2014-2023.

Applications for Next Round of Grant Preparation Funds Due June 1

Offered by CCSS in collaboration with Cornell Research & Innovation, this new funding opportunity will support faculty as they prepare major external funding proposals, with a focus on center grants, training grants, or other large collaborative research grants with budgets of at least $1 million and often $5 million or more.

Additional rounds are awarded every quarter.

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Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Data Available through Cornell FSRDC

The FFCWS follows a cohort of new parents and children and provides insight into the conditions of new parents. When used in the Cornell FSRDC, the data can be linked to confidential Census data at the individual level.

Schedule a Consultation

CCSS offers personalized training for individuals and teams on various software and data-focused topics.

Our most common consultation topics include:

Data Cleaning and Manipulation
Data Visualization Creation
Qualitative Analysis Techniques
Crafting Data Security Plans
Reproducing Results
Web Scraping

2024-25 Faculty Fellows Spotlight

Meet Current Faculty Fellows

Gordon Pennycook, associate professor of psychology, studies human reasoning and decision making with a particular focus on topics like misinformation.

See his paper, “Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogue with AI,” recently accepted at Science, where he and co-authors used LLMs to have evidence-based discussions with conspiracy believers (finding a ~20% reduction in certainty following the conversation).

Additional Events & Opportunities

Apr 15 at 4:30pm | 423 ILR Conference Center | "Poverty Wages, We're Not Lovin' It," Annelise Orleck (Dartmouth College); ILR School Distinguished Lecture in Honor of Alice H. Cook and Lois S. Gray, co-sponsored by CCSS.

Mar 10 at 2:55pm | Virtual | From Individual Behavior to Collective Action: Behavior Change in the Climate Crisis | Neil Lewis, Jr., CCSS Faculty Fellow (2020-21), will present his research on the effectiveness of individual versus collective strategies for engaging diverse audiences on climate change.

Mar 25 Deadline | Call for Letters of Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Social Science Research on Energy System Interactions in the United States | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants of $550K - $1M to be made for interdisciplinary social science research on energy system interactions in the United States, led by early- and mid-career scholars.

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Reminder: Proposals Due March 10 for CCSS Data Science Fellowships

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