CCSS Bits & Bytes May Newsletter: Funding, Events, Data Access, and More

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CCSS Awards Inaugural Grant Preparation Funds

We’re excited to announce the first recipients of the CCSS Grant Preparation Funds: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Associate Professor of Information Science

Natalie Bazarova, Professor of Communication

Mor Naaman, Don and Mibs Follett Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech

“The CCSS Grant Preparation Funds provide a major competitive edge and will help us better prepare for the next stages of our $15M NSF Expeditions proposal. Based on a successful pre-proposal review, we have been invited to submit a full proposal. These funds will provide critical support as we develop the full proposal and will also help us prepare as a team for an eventual reverse visit, which is the final stage of the selection process.” — Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Congratulations to this outstanding team!

Apply for up to $115K in Grant Preparation Funds by June 1

Apply for a Roper/CCSS Data Conversion Grant

Open to: Cornell faculty and graduate students
What: Funding to convert datasets in column binary and ASCII formats into modern formats
Offers: Up to $10,000

Deadline Extended to May 15: Apply for Trevor Pinch QuIRI Innovation Award

Open to: Cornell faculty member demonstrating innovation in developing, using, or teaching qualitative methods
What: Recipient will give the Trevor Pinch Innovation Award talk in Fall 2025
Offers: $500 honorarium

Looking for a Space to Host Your Next Social Science Event?

Come explore the collaborative spaces at 291 Clark Hall—perfect for talks, workshops, research, and team meetings.

Stop by on May 19 between 12:30–2:30 PM to tour the space and grab a free CCSS water bottle!

Congrats to Cornell FSRDC 2025 Graduates!

The Cornell FSRDC offers its congratulations to soon-to-be graduates who have used the Cornell FSRDC for their research. Both are earning their Ph.D. from the Brooks School of Public Policy.

Giulia Olivero has accepted a postdoctoral position at UCLA's California Center for Population Research.

Katharine Sadowski will be an assistant professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Education.

Read Recent Research Using ICPSR Data

Through CCSS, Cornell researchers have access to ICPSR, the world's largest social science archive with more than 21,000 studies available.

See how Jenna Leigh-Anne Shelton and Maureen R. Waller (Brooks School of Public Policy) use ICPSR data in their latest research on how reducing institutional barriers to father-child contact during incarceration may improve children's educational outcomes.

Interested in learning more about ICPSR data? Email socialsciences@cornell.edu.

Access Spring Workshop Video Recordings and Materials

Did you miss one of our data processing, replication, or qualitative analysis workshops this spring? You can now access the video recordings through the link above. Workshop materials are available in the description section of each recording.

In the News...

"Reclaiming the office lunch," The Economist article featuring Kevin Kniffin and collaborators' research (supported by a CCSS Seed Grant)

"How To Be Defiant Without Coming Across As A Jerk," Forbes article featuring Sunita Sah, CCSS Faculty Fellow (2018-19)

"Feeling 'hoodwinked' erodes trust in employee relations," Chronicle article featuring Vanessa Bohns, CCSS Grantee (2024)

2024-25 Faculty Fellows Spotlight

Meet Current Faculty Fellows

Chen Qiu, assistant professor of economics, applies statistical decision theory to develop credible solutions for evidence-based policymaking.

In a recent working paper, “Decision Theory for Treatment Choice Problems with Partial Identification ,” he and his co-authors study robust policy-making when decision makers are concerned about both model and sampling uncertainty, e.g., when policy makers care about external validity when running randomized control trials.

Additional Events & Opportunities

May 5-7 | G01 Gates Hall | Messenger Lecture Series: Cynthia Dwork | Join Harvard's Cynthia Dwork for a three-part University Messenger Lecture series on privacy, fairness, and the future of algorithms.

May 7 at 1:30pm | Webinar | Roper RoundTable: Second Release of the Most Important Problem Dataset | Laron Williams, University of Missouri, will discuss this valuable resource for researchers analyzing public opinion on the nation's most pressing issues. Hosted by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

May 14 at 1pm | Virtual | One Health, Fish Edition | Join Katie Fiorella, CCSS Faculty Fellow (2021-22), Sebastian Heilpern, and Eric Teplitz as they highlight the link between the health of aquatic ecosystems and human health through case studies from Cambodia, the Amazon, and Kenya.

May 22 from 9am - 12pm | NYU Kimmel Center | RSVP for Pilot Pitchfest | New York area researchers are invited to attend the Pilot Pitchfest at NYU—a matchmaking program to help pair New York City government agency staff with local researchers to work together on short-term, high-impact projects. In the event of a match, researchers will have the opportunity to apply for up to $80K in funding to support the project.

July 14 Deadline | Apply for NSF Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Program | The IHBEM program supports interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. Individual awards up to $1M for projects up to four years duration.

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