From September through June, investigators at IHDSC have been awarded 25 grants and contracts totaling over $11 million. We want to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate all of the important work that our network of researchers has been able to launch through external funding during this uncertain and tumultuous year. These awards support innovative work addressing inequality and opportunity across our thematic areas. They stem from the hard work of researchers in seven departments across Steinhardt, Arts & Science, and Stern School of Business and our two embedded centers, Global TIES for Children and the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies (CR+DS).

Many IHDSC affiliates were able to launch new lines of research, embark on training and career development plans, receive funding from new sources, or extend and expand ongoing research projects and partnerships in new and meaningful ways:

• Rachel Abenavoli, Pamela Morris-Perez, and Elise Cappella
  • "Supporting New York City's Early Childhood Educators in a Global Pandemic: Challenges, Innovations, and Implications for Professional Learning" funded by Research Foundation City University of New York
• Sudha Arunachalam
  • "Do children's genetically-influenced characteristics influence the parental input they experience? Evidence from a longitudinal twin study" funded by National Institutes of Health
• Rachel Atkins and Charlton McIlwain
  • "Workshop for the Advancement of Research on Racial Equity in Technology Focused Entrepreneurship" funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Natalie Brito
  • "Investigating neurobehavioral consequences of COVID-19 related stressors on maternal mental health and infant development" funded by National Institutes of Health
• Rachel Fish
  • "The Emergence of Disability and Giftedness: Race, School Context, and the Perception of Student Needs" funded by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation
• Michael Kieffer and Lorena Llosa
  • "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Improving Opportunities and Achievement for English Learners in Secondary Settings" funded as a subaward of University of Houston's Institute of Education Sciences grant
• Grace Kim
  • "Promoting adherence in upper extremity home-based rehabilitation through motivational interviewing and ecological momentary assessment: A feasibility study" funded by American Occupational Therapy Foundation
• Charlton McIlwain
  • "Researching Discriminatory Targeting" funded by Democracy Fund
• Gigliana Melzi
  • "Collaborative Research: Latinx Families' Talk about Science in Stories with Young Children" funded by National Science Foundation
  • "My Math Stories (MMS): Taking My Place in Our Mathematical World" funded as a subaward of Purdue University's New School Venture Fund grant
  • "Development and Research in Early Childhood Mathematics (DREME) - Phase IV" funded as a subaward of Standford University's Heising Simons Foundation grant
• William Tsai
  • "Helping Oneself by Helping Others: A Writing Intervention for Chinese American Cancer Survivors" funded by National Institutes of Health
• Hiro Yoshikawa, Alice Wuermli, Carly Tubbs-Dolan, and Larry Aber
  • "Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY)" funded by RTI International/LEGO Foundation

Others were able to receive funding for projects that seek to build scholarly networks and capacity; change academic discourse; develop resources and tools; deepen partnerships; and influence policy and practice:

• Karen Adolph
  • "Developing Belief: The Development and Diversity of Religious Cognition and Behavior: Phase 1" subaward from Boston University/UCR (Templeton Foundation)
  • "Pilot Testing, Refinement, and Validating of the NBT, and Preparation for Norming Study" subaward and contract from Northwestern University's National Institutes of Health grant
• Anil Chacko
  • "Improving Access and Outcomes for children with ADHD" funded by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Cynthia McCallister
  • "Proposal to Advance an Adequacy-based Conception of Equality of Educational Opportunity: Toward a 'Quantum of Education'" funded by William T Grant Foundation
• Charlton McIlwain
  • ​​​​​​​"Core Support for CR+DS and IHDSC to engage in strategic planning regarding becoming a sustainable hub for race and technology work" funded by the Ford Foundation
• Carly Tubbs-Dolan
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​"3EA Measures & Metrics Initiative Phase 2" funded by Stiftung Auxilium (Porticus)

Still others were able to focus on building community impact through partnerships, training and technical assistance, evaluation work, and consultancies:

• Elise Cappella
  • "BRIDGE Training Plan" contracted by University of Pennsylvania
  • "NYU-STEAM Research Partnership" contracted by Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation
• Shabnam Javdani and Erin Godfrey
  • "Young Women's Freedom Center (YWFC) Santa Clara Diversion Program Evaluation" subaward from Young Women’s Freedom Center
• Richard Welsh
  • ​​​​​​​"Formulating Interventions to Reduce Discipline Disparities in Clarke County School District" contracted by Clarke County SD