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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 National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Cornell University $3.512 million on October 1, 2025, under the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (CFDA 10.514), a formula grant supporting nutrition education delivery to low-income families, young adults aged 18–25, and 4-H youth across New York State. Cornell Cooperative Extension operates the program statewide across 62 counties, using a county funding formula refined to account for both poverty...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Cornell University a $3.5 million Formula Grant under the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. EFNEP aims to increase the impact of nutrition education provided to low-income families and youth across the United States, territories, and District of Columbia. Through this funding, Cornell University will deliver nutrition education...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Pennsylvania State University $157,300 through the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct research comparing child eating patterns in controlled laboratory and home environments. The project, which commenced September 11, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2027, will deliver empirical research data examining whether eating...

The Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $2 million Project Grant to the Food Research & Action Center, Inc. (FRAC) under the Child Nutrition Discretionary Grants Limited Availability (CNDG LA) program (CFDA #10.579). The grant will support FRAC's Child Nutrition Studies Program from November 2022 through December 2025. The CNDG LA program provides competitively awarded subgrants to support equipment purchases valued over $1,000 needed to serve healthier...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of South Carolina $1,237,094 on September 15, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research Projects program (CFDA 93.865) to study the efficacy of center-based childcare in mitigating unhealthy weight gain in preschoolers from low-income households during summer months. The study targets preschool-age children from households at or below 185% poverty level or Medicaid-eligible, a...

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases awarded The Research Foundation for the State University of New York $1.634 million on June 1, 2026, for a randomized controlled trial testing a family-based obesity prevention intervention using online grocery shopping defaults. The study recruits 192 parents with obesity who have children aged 2 to 5 years and use online grocery shopping. Families are randomly assigned to either a default intervention group or a control...

This $746,268 Project Grant awarded on September 27, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the Child Nutrition-Technology Innovation Grant (CFDA 10.541) program will fund the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to develop, improve, and maintain automated information systems for Child Nutrition Programs (CNPs). The grant aims to leverage technological solutions to enhance program accountability, data accuracy, performance measurement, and...

The Cornell University Office of Sponsored Programs will receive $310,249 under a two-year Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. The grant is part of the Regional Food System Partnerships program, which supports partnerships to plan and develop local or regional food systems. Under the award, Cornell will lead the New York Food Hub Collaboratives initiative to improve the economic viability of mid-tier food supply chain partners targeting local...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $425,955 to Oakland University to conduct research on using behavioral economics to mitigate relapse of problem behavior in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) Establish a proxy response, apply treatment, and...