EXTERNAL GRANTS, SEPTEMBER 2020 |
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As part of a new initiative, the Office for the Advancement of Research is sharing external grants secured by faculty and staff with the John Jay community, to promote greater awareness of the research and other projects your colleagues are undertaking. OAR hopes these monthly updates will create new opportunities for collaboration and inspiration across disciplines.
The below grants were all received in September 2020. Please join us in congratulating the PIs listed below!
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SPONSOR: University of Georgia, U.S. Department of State
PROJECT TITLE: Estimating the Prevalence of Domestic Servitude Among Tanzania Migrant Workers who Returned from Overseas
PERIOD: 5/1/2020 - 12/31/2020
AMOUNT: $450,000
SUMMARY: John Jay College, in collaboration with Community Health and Social Welfare Africa (COMHESWA), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Kyle Vincent and Amanda Mbise, will estimate the number of Tanzanian nationals who experienced domestic servitude while working abroad. The team will employ two different methodologies: Multi-Stage Probability Proportional Size Sampling (PPS) and the Vincent Link Tracing Sampling Method (VLTS).
SPONSOR: University of Georgia, U.S. Department of State
PROJECT TITLE: Estimating the Prevalence of Forced Labor in the Fishing Industry in Costa Rica
PERIOD: 5/1/2020 - 12/31/2020
AMOUNT: $450,000
SUMMARY: John Jay College, in collaboration with IOM-Costa Rica, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Kyle Vincent, will estimate the number of labor trafficking victims in the fishing industry in Costa Rica. The team will employ two different methodologies: Multi-Stage Probability Proportional Size Sampling (PPS) and the Vincent Link Tracing Sampling Method (VLTS).
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SPONSOR: Public Welfare Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Juvenile Justice Reform: The 'Next Frontier' Media Fellowship Program
PERIOD: 5/1/2020 - 4/30/2021
AMOUNT: $15,000
SPONSOR: The Tow Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: 2020 Youth Justice Reporting Fellowship
PERIOD: 7/27/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $60,000
SUMMARY: The Tow, Pew Welfare, and Annie E. Casey Foundations are supporting a series of webinars over the fall, beginning on October 22, 2020 with "Young People in Peril: The Impact of Today's Health, Economic and Social Crisis on Juvenile Justice Reform." These webinars will examine the current state of the movement to transform the juvenile justice system, ranging from closing youth prisons to dismantling community supervision, in light of what we now know about the harms being done by the current system to justice-involved youth.
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SPONSOR: Board Regents of the University of Oklahoma, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PROJECT TITLE: Accelerating Development of the U.S. Extreme Weather and Society Survey Series
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 9/30/2021
AMOUNT: $55,377.89
SUMMARY: The project is the first phase of an expansion to an existing Extreme Weather and Society Survey Series housed in the National Institute for Risk and Resilience at the University of Oklahoma. In this preliminary stage, our group is developing a survey sample frame that will capture a representative universe of positions around the nation that function as an Emergency Manager. While Emergency Manager is an official job title, it is not often applied to many experts in public health, private and nonprofit communities that serve this capacity; developing a methodology to systematically and consistently capture this sector will provide NOAA the ability to craft their products to better serve the nation's response community needs.
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SPONSOR: Pew Charitable Trusts
PROJECT TITLE: Network Analysis of High-Risk Transshipment
PERIOD: 9/29/2020 - 3/31/2021
AMOUNT: $53,425
SUMMARY: The project focuses on identifying and analyzing global transshipment activities between refrigerated carriers and fishing vessels to better predict risks involved in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. The analyses will involve predictive mapping and social network analysis, and will assist Pew in their campaign efforts.
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SPONSOR: U.S. Department of Education
PROJECT TITLE: Life-Long Success: Supporting Academic Momentum and Post-Graduate Preparation of Hispanic Students
PERIOD: 10/1/2020 - 9/30/2021
AMOUNT: $592,976
SUMMARY: This five-year project integrates intensive summer programming, the creation of academic cohorts that explore various Frames of Justice during the first two years of study, and targeted academic, financial and post-graduate planning support of freshmen and sophomores at John Jay College. Grant activities will engage faculty and staff across multiple divisions to coordinate services that lead to increased retention, credit accumulation, and focused post-graduate planning.
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SPONSOR: Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice - Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
PROJECT TITLE: Technical Assistance for Data Integration for Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $147,856
SUMMARY: The project provides technical assistance to the MOCJ Research Team with data integration efforts.
Year 6
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SPONSOR: NYS Education Department
PROJECT TITLE: Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP)
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $349,000
SUMMARY: The CSTEP award helps PRISM increase the support it provides to students from under-represented groups in STEM who are pursuing careers in mathematics, science, technology, and health-related fields. This $1.75M five-year grant allows PRISM to provide targeted academic advisement, peer mentorship, professional development and career exploration activities, fund research internships with faculty mentors, and increases the academic support students receive in "gateway" courses in STEM.
Year 6
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SPONSOR: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: 16th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America
PERIOD: 10/1/2020 - 10/1/2021
AMOUNT: $102,091
SUMMARY: The 16th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, and the annual awards for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting, will take place in late February 2021. For the first time, the CMCJ plans to conduct this nationally-known event online, with up to 30-35 journalists chosen as Fellows, along with the country's leading players in the justice system.
Year 16
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