Awardees of the Provost's Grant Program for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University
The Provost’s Grant Program for Junior Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University provides awards, of up to $25,000 each, to support new or ongoing research and scholarship, seed funding for innovative research for which external funding would be difficult to obtain, and curricular development projects. Requests for proposals occur twice a year.
Faculty Awardees and Titles of Funded Projects to Date:
Spring 2017
David Rosand Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Renaissance Scribbles and Doodles
Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music Composition
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Contemporary Chamber Music Album: Composed, Conducted and Produced by Women
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Regimes of Dispossession: Environment and Citizenship in Spain (1973-1993)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Agent-Centered Restrictions in Causal Decision Theory
Assistant Professor of Physics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Deep Learning, GPUs, and the Hunt for Elusive Signals in Liquid Argon Detectors
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Effects of a Novel Cardiomyopathy Gene on Human Heart Cells and the Mouse Heart
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Parallel Action: Bombay Cinema and the Practice of Modernity
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Understanding De-Implementation in the Context of an Evidence-based Lay Health Advisor Program to Address Cancer Disparities
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Robust Estimate of High/ultrahigh Dimensional Data and its Oracle Property
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Directed Differentiation Enteroendocrine Cells
Fall 2016
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Localization of Stored Platelets to Sites of Active Bleeding Following Transfusion
Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Anesthesiology)
College of Physicians and Surgeons
In Vivo Imaging of Lung Apoptosis in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Role of Essentialism in Social Perception
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Tools for Manipulating the Mechanical Forces that Drive Morphogenesis
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Infant Gastrointestinal Tract Microbiome Dysbiosis and its Impact on CD8+T Cell Gene Transcription Regulation
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Mapping Asian Diasporic Performances of Race, Gender and Nation
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Molecular Changes Related to Infections and Relevant to Pubertal Timing
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Intimate Contract: Queer Attachment, Risk and the Word of Law
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
DISTANCED: Intersectionality & Gendered Experience of American Urban Space
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
School of the Arts
Textiles, Migration and Trade in Painting
Spring 2016
Carmela Alcantara
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Cultural Adaptation of an Online Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Insomnia for Hispanic Primary Care Patients
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
History of Health Activism in the United States (1960-1980)
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
School of the Arts
Searching for Here
Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Sex Differences and the Role of Novel Calcium Kinase Signaling
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Cultural Adaptation of an Online Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Insomnia for Hispanic Primary Care Patients
Swarnali Acharyya
Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Targeting Systemic Mediators in Cancer
Vanessa Burbano
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
The Effect of Feedback on Employee Motivation: Evidence from Online Labor Marketplaces
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
History of Health Activism in the United States (1960-1980)
Patrice Derrington
Holliday Associate Professor of Real Estate Development
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fundamental Principles for Socially Equitable Real Estate Development Decision
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
School of the Arts
Searching for Here
Michelle Odlum
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Understanding the Interaction between HIV and Health Outcomes in a New York City Vulnerable Population of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 50 and Over
Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Sex Differences and the Role of Novel Calcium Kinase Signaling
Adam Sonabend
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Immune Editing of Glioblastoma Genome During Tumor Progression
Fall 2015
Mabel Abraham
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
Projects on Gender Sorting of Entrepreneurs
Shipra Agrawal
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
School of Engineering and Applied Science
A Scalable and Robust Approach for Sequential Decision Making
Rudy Behnia
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Modulation of Circuits Elements for Motion Detection by Locomotion
Mana Kia
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Love, Loyalty and Difference: Forms of Companionship Across Early Modern Iran and India
Jennifer La'O
Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Credit Risk and Interdealer Networks
Nathalie Moise
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Innovative Models for Delivery of Depression Care and Reducing Cardiovascular Disease
Lynn Nottage
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
School of the Arts
OUT/LET
Desmond Patton
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Innovating Gang Violence Prevention with Qualitative Analysis and Natural Language Processing Tools
Emily Tsai
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Understanding the Molecular Pathobiology of Right Ventricular Dysfunction as a Determinant of Gender Differences in Heart Failure
Fanyin Zheng
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
The Role of Competition and Economies of Scale in Drug Development
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
Projects on Gender Sorting of Entrepreneurs
Shipra Agrawal
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
School of Engineering and Applied Science
A Scalable and Robust Approach for Sequential Decision Making
Rudy Behnia
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Modulation of Circuits Elements for Motion Detection by Locomotion
Mana Kia
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Love, Loyalty and Difference: Forms of Companionship Across Early Modern Iran and India
Jennifer La'O
Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Credit Risk and Interdealer Networks
Nathalie Moise
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Innovative Models for Delivery of Depression Care and Reducing Cardiovascular Disease
Lynn Nottage
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
School of the Arts
OUT/LET
Desmond Patton
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Innovating Gang Violence Prevention with Qualitative Analysis and Natural Language Processing Tools
Emily Tsai
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Understanding the Molecular Pathobiology of Right Ventricular Dysfunction as a Determinant of Gender Differences in Heart Failure
Fanyin Zheng
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School
The Role of Competition and Economies of Scale in Drug Development
Spring 2015
Erica Avrami
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Preservation and sustainability: Establishing new indicators of success
Xiaojuan Chen
Assistant Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery)
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Assistant Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery)
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Probing human islet alpha cell biology with single-cell gene expression
Anne Heinrichs
Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business
Anne Heinrichs
Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business
Accounting research and teaching projects
The two directions of arbitrage
Shiho Kawashima
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Elucidating the contribution of thixotropy on the flow curve and critical shear rate of fresh cement mortars
Rebecca Kobrin
Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Rebecca Kobrin
Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Voices of the new Russian-Jewish diaspora: International dimensions of the contemporary Russian migration
Jennifer Kuo
Assistant Professor of Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jennifer Kuo
Assistant Professor of Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Breast cancer among thyroid cancer survivors
A new approach to point-free space
Research on portfolio preferences and mutual funds
Evaluating the Bridge Program as a test-case for how to increase underrepresented minority participation in science
Emily Stein
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Emily Stein
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The effects of inhaled glucocorticoids on central skeleton structure and strength in postmenopausal Latina women
Van-Anh Truong
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Van-Anh Truong
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Online algorithms for service systems
High-precision laser systems for an ultracold molecular clock
December 2014
Department of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Do Stronger Gun Violence Prevention Laws Promote Healthier Communities? Exploring the Relationship between Health Outcomes and Firearms Legislation Funding, Implementation & Enforcement
School of Nursing
Feasibility and Acceptability of an Online Maternity Education Platform
Department of Political Science
Arts and Sciences
The Spotlight's Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order
School of Social Work
Black Face to Ferguson: A Mixed Methodological Examination of Media Racism, Media Activism and Health
Department of Pediatrics
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Hispanic Adolescents and Parent Discordance about Reproductive Health Trials
Department of Pediatrics
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Impact of Physical Activity Level on Environmental and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Asthma
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Queues with Synchronization in Cloud Computing
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Modeling chemical driven fractured rocks by integrating 3D printing digenesis and multiscale computations
Department of Psychology
Arts and Sciences
Critical Periods for Intergenerational Fear Transmission in Humans
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The role of ubiquitination in neurotransmitter release
Department of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Understanding gender differences in atrial fibrillation using a novel transgenic mouse model
Department of Neurology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The role of selective macroautophagy in neurodegeneration
March 2014
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
College of Physicans and Surgeons
Role of angiogenic Notch in uterine decidualization and placentation
Assistant Professor
College of Dental Medicine
Developing Strategies to Treat Temporomandibular Joint Diseases
Assistant Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Show Us the Money: Improving Accountability in Government Procurement
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Trauma and HIV risk behavior among female fish traders in Zambia
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Next-Generation Treatments for Mental Disorders: Rapid-Acting Therapeutics in OCD
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Arts & Sciences
Savage States
May 2013
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Peer-led Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Minorities with Serious Mental Illness in Supportive Housing Agencies: A Pilot Feasibility Study
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Neighborhood interventions to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in alcohol-related homicide
Assistant Professor of Music
Arts & Sciences
Sound Waves Across the Waters: The Polycultural Music of Japanese and American Smooth Jazz Artists
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Optical Imaging of the Heart for Substrate Characterization and Therapy Monitoring
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
CleanOS: Limiting Sensitive Data Exposure in Mobile Operating Systems
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Writing
School of the Arts
Untitled Novel
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Seeking and testing the feasibility of a novel approach to reduce HIV/AIDS among vulnerable populations
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Bacterial Translocation and Endotoxin in the Prediction and Prevention of Recurrent Liver Fibrosis Following Liver Transplantation in Patients with Hepatitis C
February 2013
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Arts and Sciences
Celestial Cinematography with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Uncovering the Transient Sky
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Therapeutic Targeting of the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) with selective HDAC6 inhibitor (ACY1215) for the Treatment of Lymphoma: Understanding the Relationship Between UPR and Apoptosis
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
School of the Arts
Shatter: The Final Chapter of a Film Trilogy on the Formation and Dissolution of Personal Identity
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning
Data, Media, Race + Space: A Global Africa Lab Workshop in Johannesburg
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Energy Insecurity: Examining Energy, the Built Environment and Health Among Vulnerable Populations in the Context of Climate Change
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs
Assistant Professor of Economics
Arts and Sciences
The Endogeneity of Labor Market Fairness Norms
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Building Finite Element Models of the Female Pelvic Region During Pregnancy
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Arts and Sciences
New representation theoretic methods for the mod p Langlands program
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Elevated Plasma Proopiomelanocortin and Agouti-related Peptide Levels in Ectopic ACTH Tumors: Use in the Differential Diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's Syndrome
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Arts and Sciences
Tracking the Carceral Continuum: Examining the Intersecting Education and Juvenile Justice Experiences of NYC Adolescents
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Effects of Stress of Cardiovascular Health among Puerto Rican youth
Assistant Professor of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Molecular determinants of Staphyloccocus aureus in HIV-infected individuals
Dorian Warren
Associate Professor of Political Science
Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs
The Future of Work in America: A New Deal for the 21st Century Workplace
Assistant Professor of Business
Business School
Depletion-as-Information: The Role of Feelings in Resource Depletion
Molecular Changes Related to Infections and Relevant to Pubertal Timing