The National Science Foundation will award three million dollars to Cornell’s Institute of Social and Economic Research and Labor and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ Labor Dynamic Institute over the next five years to improve the Census Bureau’s publication and organization of data. 

Cornell was awarded a grant to help develop the local wine industry.

Cornell will help develop a training program for teachers on how to deliver a curriculum that promotes the development of bioenergy and bio-based products to students. 

Google is giving a team of Cornell researchers $800 K to try to make internet social interactions more representative of real life.

The European Commission was recently awarded a $125,000 grant to the Cornell Institute for European Studies, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the New York State Center for Rural Schools.

Two budding Cornell alumni writers were awarded prestigious grants for their most recent literary works.

Dr. Robin Hadlock Seeley, a senior research associate at the Cornell Shoals Lab, was awarded a $10,000 grant that she plans to use to help spread awareness about environmental issues.

The Cornell Population Program’s progress toward its goal of becoming a leading center for national and international demographic research has been significantly boosted by a $1.15 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health.

Each year, the NIH’s Demographic and Behavioral Science Branch awards one such grant to a new program showing the greatest promise of becoming a top population research center. The grant money, which began to flow on August 15 of this year, will be spread over a five-year period.

It will be used to support the development of the CPP’s infrastructure as well as its research, which focuses on three main areas: families and children, health behaviors and disparities, and poverty and inequality.

Two Cornell professors won a $25 million grant for a new interdisciplinary scientific research and education center at Cornell, announced the Global Research Partnership of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology yesterday.

The KAUST-Cornell University Center for Research and Education will be co-led by Prof. Emmanuel Giannelis, materials science and engineering, and Prof. Lynden Archer, chemical and biolomolecular engineering, the Marjorie L. Hart Professor of Engineering. Giannelis and Archer’s proposal is selected as one of the four winners among the 41 initial applications submitted in late 2007.

The Hartwell Foundation — which provides funds for translational biomedical research aimed at helping children — recently issued three grants and a fellowship to Cornell researchers. These funds, totaling $1 million, make Cornell the first research university to receive three faculty grants simultaneously from the foundation.