Junior Faculty Grants Program
Program Details
This small-grants program was designed to support Schools’ diversity plans, by advancing the career success of outstanding junior faculty who contribute to the diversity goals of the University by their research, teaching, and mentoring activities.
Meet the Grant Recipients
Fall 2024 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Black Measure: Architecture After Property
Assistant Professor of Physics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Physics Scholars Program
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Columbia Engineering
Engineering Dendritic Cell-Targeting Nanobodies for Enhanced Vaccine Development Against Enteric Viruses
Spring 2024 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Columbia Engineering
Developing Nanoparticles for Increasing Food Security and Safety
Howard Levene Assistant Professor of Statistics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
User Level Differential Privacy for Longitudinal Data
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia Engineering
Advanced Biomaterials for in situ Induction of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Columbia Engineering
Developing Socio-Physical Urban Building Energy Models
Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Equity and Efficiency Consequences of Racial Quotas in Hiring
Fall 2023 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Storied Frequencies: Radio Narratives from South Asia
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
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
FICTION
Spring 2023 Awardees
CBS Assistant Professor of International Journalism
School of Journalism
Singed: Stanley Greene, American War Photographer
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
Fall 2022 Awardees
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Characterizing the Immunomicrometabolome (IMM) in Chronically Instrumented Airways: A Multi-Omics Approach for Improving Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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
Spring 2022 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
Does brain activity in the naked mole-rat govern cooperative social life?
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
Fall 2021 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Herbert and Florence Institute for Cancer Dynamics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Machine Learning for Characterizing Spatial Dynamics in Tumor Tissues
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
Spring 2021 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
The Practice of Urban Planning in Cities in Conflict and Post-Conflict
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 GABAA 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
Fall 2020 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
The Environmental and Social Life Cycle Potential of 3D Printed Earthen Buildings
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
Spring 2020 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance and Decolonial Desire in the French Atlantic
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
Fall 2019 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Association of Sleep Architecture with Blood Pressure Dipping
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
Spring 2019 Awardees
Instructor in Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Role of Tenascin in the Etiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
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
Fall 2018 Awardees
E3B Assistant Professor & Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute Investigator
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Finding Genes That Control Aggression
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
Spring 2018 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Trust, Cooperation, and Collective Action in Diverse Communities
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
Fall 2017 Awardees
Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism
Graduate School of Journalism
How Political Violence Becomes Banditry
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