This Project Grant award of $284,207.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research at Cornell University examining farmer decision-making processes related to climate adaptation through the adoption of new crop varieties. The key products of this 3-year project include: (1) developing a multi-scale modeling approach combining land surface modeling, satellite...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $544,613 to Cornell University to study how emerging digital technologies are transforming occupations and organizations in dairy farming. Specifically, the research will explore evolving relationships in digital agriculture and their occupational and organizational consequences, generalize...
Cornell University received a $136,096 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on November 1, 2023 to complete work by June 30, 2025. This award falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which promotes basic research and education in these fields. Specifically, Cornell University will conduct research to better understand the utopic visions that fuel environmental extremist groups and...
This $1,791,864 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research to understand how landscape context and configuration interact with on-farm practices to shape pollinator supply, and how social, institutional, and environmental factors influence farmers' ability and interest in collective action to address pollinator declines. The research will be conducted by Cornell University, with sub-awards to the Centre for...
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University a $471,608 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) on February 15, 2021. Cornell will use the funding to conduct collaborative research on the relationship between economic downturns, global pandemics, and parliamentary elections. Specifically, researchers will examine how macroeconomic conditions and public health crises impact voter behavior and electoral outcomes in...
Cornell University was awarded a $581,698 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support research to develop innovative statistical decision theory methods for policy evaluation. Specifically, Cornell researchers will use three projects to create new estimation and inference methods connecting statistical decision theory to economics and...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $495,704 Project Grant to Cornell University under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will support Cornell's efforts to address critical workforce needs in agricultural plant sciences for the digital era. Specifically, the university will develop training programs to enhance students' and educators' agricultural literacy and ability to effectively apply advances in...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded Cornell University a $3,798,972 Cooperative Agreement under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to create a circular economy that reimagines agriculture using plant diversity and computational modeling. The award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024, will support research aimed at making agricultural discoveries, evaluating alternative research approaches, and providing scientific and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support collaborative archaeological research to investigate the relationship between agriculture, environmental change, and social inequality over time. The $118,277 grant awarded to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) will enable a transdisciplinary team to analyze agricultural practices, food webs, and land use...
Cornell University received a $783,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program. The award period is from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026. Through this funding, Cornell University will examine the impact of micronutrient-fortified salt on anemia and other health outcomes in children, as well as use metabolomics to study the mechanisms by which...