Junior Faculty Grants Program

Assistant Professor of Social Work
School of Social Work 

Psychometrics Development: Understanding Adolescents’ Awareness of Racial Oppression

Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs

Artificial Intelligence and the Implications for International Stability

Associate Professor of Visual Arts 
School of the Arts

Artificial Intelligence Photography: Storytelling, Ethics, Machine Learning

Associate Professor of Visual Arts 
School of the Arts

FICTION

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering 
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

FICTION

Assistant Professor of Business
School of Business

Can We Talk about Race and Racism? Experimental Evidence

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Fracture-Modulated CO2 Migration and Storage in On-Shore Saline Aquifer

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Media Origins of Perceptions of Policing in America

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Insurgent Planning on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: Lessons from Edgemere

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

A Personalised Language Tutor via Conversational AI

Assistant Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing

Optimizing Screening for Financial Distress and Social Health Risks among Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Implementation Potential of Nontraditional Cardiac Rehabilitation in a Real-World Clinical Setting

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

PoreStore Lab: Optimizing Geologic Carbon Storage Capacity with Pore-Scale Fluid Flow Dynamics

Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Mechanisms of Sensory Memory Encoding and Inheritance

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health

Arrests Are Just the Tip of the Inequitable Iceberg: Creating a Database to Assess Racial and Spatial Inequities in the Mental Health Burden of Hyper-Policed Communities in NYC

Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts & Sciences

The Environmental Costs of Economic Growth

Assistant Professor of Business (Management)
School of Business

Demographic Characteristics Shape Perceptions of Diversity Expertise

Assistant Professor of Business in the Accounting Division
Diversity Cascade

Associate Professor of Social Work
Protecting Students Against Racism in Educational Settings: Developing and Evaluating a Virtual-Reality Based Intervention

Associate Professor of Law
Fairness Implications of Bargaining and Search Behavior in Mortgage Origination and Servicing

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Genetic determinants of tumor-immune cell interactions

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health

Negotiating Health Care Coverage for Foster Youth: A Pilot Study

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health

Predictive Biomarkers of Cerebrovascular Health among Women who Experienced Preeclampsia during Pregnancy

Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

A Softrobotics Sensing and Actuating Cardiac Compression Sleeve for a Personalized Treatment of Heart Failure in Children and Adults

Howard Levene Assistant Professor of Statistics
Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Machine Learning Methods for Robust Data Analysis

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Faculty of Arts & Sciences

The Impact of Workplace Diversity on Police Officer Behavior: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Chicago Police Department

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Faculty of Arts & Sciences

A Descriptive and Causal Analysis of Latino-Targeted Misinformation

Assistant Professor of Social Work
School of Social Work

Water Is Life: Exploring Women’s Resilience in the Face of Water Scarcity and Inequalities in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

Assistant Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing 

Exploring psychological and epigenetic influences on blood pressure in Black and/or Latinx LGBTQ+ adults

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Celiac Ganglia Hyperactivity in Obesity 

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Heat and The City: Overcoming Decades of Racist Urban Planning Via Coordinated Experiments and Simulations

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Famine Landscapes: The Architecture and Infrastructure of Hunger in India 1942-1975

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Testing Deep Learning Based Autonomous Driving Controllers

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Investigating the Mechanisms Underlying the Retinal Ganglion Cell Death in a unique patient specific mutation knock-in mouse model with Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Assistant Professor of Social Work
School of Social Work

Mitigating Inequities in Drug-related Morbidity and Mortality During Pregnancy and Postpartum: What Role Do Childbirth Health Service Providers Play In (Re)Producing Harms?

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Using Health Information Technology to Accelerate Timely Surveillance and Screening of Childhood Obesity Among Disproportionately Burdened Populations

Assistant Professor of Writing
School of the Arts

Fusang

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Control of Vascular Tone by Peripheral GABA_A receptors

Lavon Duddleson Krumb Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Realizing Sustainable Decentralized Nutrient Recovery from Wastewaters with Membrane-Based Technologies

Assistant Professor of Business (Economics)
Graduate School of Business

Survey Design for Sensitive Information in Organizations

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Summer Research Experience in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University for Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates from Tuskegee University: Multiphase Flows

Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Introduction and Scale-up of a Novel Long-acting HIV Prevention Intervention for Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Associate Professor of Law
School of Law

Mapping America's Constitution: Restoring the Pathways and Legal Norms of Commercial Union
 

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Building the Mosque: Sub-Saharan African Models

Associate Professor of Professional Practice
School of Social Work

Curriculum development and implementation - Preparation for Field Practice in Social Work Course - Professionalism, SelfAwareness and Ethics and Power, Racism, Privilege and Oppression (PROP)
 

Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs

More than Meets the Eye: Stereotype Activation and Protest Mobilization in the Digital Age

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health

Residence in Hispanic/Latino ethnic enclaves, frequency and type of away-from-home foods, and diet quality in a large, national cohort of Hispanics/Latino adults of diverse origin

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty of Arts & Sciences 

Canons and Empires: Tensions in Arabic Literary History

Assistant Professor of Writing
School of the Arts

CLAM DOWN

Assistant Professor of Social Work
Columbia School of Social Work

Developing Just-In-Time Mental Health Interventions for Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescents

Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business

Improving Proactive Care and Post-Discharge Care

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Tracking the Spread of Multidrug-resistance Genes by Mobile Plasmids in Nursing Homes

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Sex Differences in Manganese Homeostasis and Glucose Metabolism 

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Chronic Allergic Lung Inflammation Negatively Influence Neurobehavioral Outcomes in Mice

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Arts & Sciences 

Film Work: Media Practices in Socialist and Postsocialist China

Assistant Professor of History
Faculty of Arts & Sciences 

Romans Abroad: Associations of Roman Citizens from the Second Century BCE to the Third Century CE

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Dynamic 3D Scene Representation for Active Scene Understanding

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Atomically-thin transparent electronics from sheets of 2D materials

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Oral Nifedipine versus Intravenous Labetalol for Postpartum Hypertensive Emergency: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Assistant Professor of Marketing
Graduate School of Business

Distributed Teams and the Future of Work

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

AI Tools for Human Productivity

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Using Advanced Optical Methods to Probe Early Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease

Associate Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing

Certificate of Professional Achievement in Transgender Healthcare for Nurse Practitioners

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health

The Impact of Hospital Consolidation and Management Practices on Childbirth Outcomes

Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health

Structural Determinants of Health and Nativity: Implications for Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

NavStick and NavWatch: Self-Directed Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Defining the Role of Thyroid Function in Children with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Assistant Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing

Machine Learning for Transgender Cohort Discovery

Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Investigating the Mechanism of Autoinflammation: Identifying Self-RNA Species that Trigger Inflammation

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Political Origins of Anti-Migrant Discrimination in Diverse Societies

Assistant Professor of Business
Columbia Business School

What Motivates Innovative Entrepreneurs Across Culture and Gender?

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health

Balancing Provider Autonomy and System Standardization in Pursuit of Health Equity

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Chemical Mechanisms of Lithium Ion Transport in Next Generation Cathode Materials

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health

Maternal Gifts: Understanding how Maternal Immunity Shapes the Development of the Infant Immune System

Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Geography of Lethal Force

Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Deep Phenotyping of Lipoprotein (a): An Emerging Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Why Violent Actors Win Elections

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

TMEM16A Antagonists as a Novel Treatment for Asthma: Interaction with First-Line Agent B(beta)-2-Adrenoceptor Agonists

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Sustainable and Fair Ecosystem Towards Robotic-Human Vehicle Interactive Driving Equilibrium (SAFE2RIDE)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Implementing Models for Mechanical Circulatory Support Pre-surgical Assessment in Congenital Heart Disease Treatment (IMMPACT)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Effects of Maternal Prenatal Diet, Stress, and Cardiovascular Health on Infant Diet, Gastrointestinal Symptoms, and Behavior

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Discipline Director of New Genre, Visual Arts
School of the Arts

Turret Tents

Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
School of International and Public Affairs

Shades of Integration: Wholesale Electricity Markets in the U.S.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Directed Evolutions of New Biomaterials

Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor in Pre-Columbia Art History and Archaeology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Art, Environment, and Deep Time in Ancient South America

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Complementary Forms of Goal Directed Behavior

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center  
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Improving the Reproductive Health of Minority Adolescent Males with a User-Informed, Theory-Based, Digital Health Intervention

Assistant Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Boosting Mitochondrial Complex I Assembly to Alleviate Complex I Dysfunction

Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business

Money and Banking

Assistant Professor of French and Romance Philology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Book Manuscript, Research Symposium and New Translation

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Capacity Building: Leveraging Medicaid Data to Assess and Improve Longitudinal Outcomes and Costs for New York’s Most Vulnerable Congenital Heart Patients

Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business

Trickle-Round Signals: When Low Status Becomes High

Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Subjectivity and Accumulation in Latin America

Carl and Bernice Witten Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies 
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Religious Crucible: Kabbalah, Modernity and the Challenges of Religious Coexistence in the Works of Elia Benamozegh (1823-1900)

Assistant Professor of Music
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Resonances of the Rural: Music, Sound and Migrant Moroccan Men in Italy

Assistant Professor of Music
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Comedians of the King

Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Trade and Growth in a World of Cities

Assistant Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business

Studying Behavioral Segregation via Online Social Networks

Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health

The Structure of Health Disparities: Examining the Pathways Through Which City- and State-Level Policies Impact HIV-related Risk Behaviors for Sexual and Racial Minority Youth in the United States

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health

Novel Dual Color Cell Assay to Study Sex-specific Effects in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis