The IHDSC scholarly community leverages interdisciplinary expertise and partnerships in education, health and healthcare, social and human development, economics, and more to create new knowledge and spark meaningful social change. Join us in celebrating the recent funding awards received by members of our community. 

October 2025 - March 2026

Over the fall and winter, investigators at IHDSC were awarded 37 grants and contracts totaling nearly $6 million. We are thrilled to provide support to these talented and impactful research teams that share our commitment to unraveling inequality and expanding opportunity. Please join us in celebrating the recent funding awards received by members of our scholarly community! 

Institutional Awards

Affiliates received internal NYU funding for groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship.

• Jeanette Beasley
  • “Nutrition sUpport for migranTs Residing In shelteRs (NUTRIR)” funded by NYU Goddard Impact Award. 
• Jacob Faber
  • “Leveraging Historical Property Records to Uncover Federal Support of Redlining” funded NYU Research Boost for Outstanding Talent Program (REBOOT).
• Shabnam Javdani
  • “Building Infrastructure for Equity: Advancing the Next Phase of NYU's Prison Education Program” funded by NYU Research and Innovation Seed (RAISE).
  • “Positioning ROSES for Re-Investment: Longitudinal Evidence on Victimization Risk and Alternatives to Incarceration for Girls” funded NYU Research Boost for Outstanding Talent Program (REBOOT).
• Kongji Qin
  • “Ensuring Immigrant Student Learning in a Time of Crisis: A Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Research, Policy, and Practice Impact” funded by NYU Cross-Cutting Initiative on Inequality (CCII).
• Niobe Way 
  • “Examining Interpersonal and Intellectual Curiosity Development in Context” funded by NYU Research and Innovation Seed (RAISE).

Federal Awards

Affiliates received federal funding from the National Institutes of Health.

• Lillian Polanco Roman
  • “Structural Racism, Neurocognition in Reward Related Decision Making and Substance Use Risk” transferred subaward with Columbia University funded by National Institutes of Health

Foundation and Other Awards and Contracts 

Affiliates received awards, prizes, and contracts from a wide variety of foundations, agencies, and organizations.

• Jeanette Beasley
  • “Global Evaluation of Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Implementation and Effectiveness” funded by the American Heart Association (AHA). 
• Elise Cappella
  • Dr. Cappella and the Path Program received a new contract from Center for Supportive Schools. 
  • Dr. Cappella and the Path Program received a new contract from Martin De Porres School.
• Andrea Glenn
  • “Plasma metabolomic signature of almonds from a dose-response randomized controlled cross-over feeding trial” funded by the Almond Board of California. 
  • “Brownsville Wellness Program for Blood Pressure (B-WELL BP): A Community-Based Food-is-Medicine Pilot Study” funded by the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Thomas Hill
  • “Malawi Data Voice Commons” funded by GovLab (Fund for the City of New York).
  • “Supporting Iraqi-led Infrastructures for Peace and Thought Leadership on Peacebuilding “ funded by the United Nations Development Programme. 
• Shabnam Javdani and Erin Godfrey
  • “YWFC Freedom Research Institute” subaward with Young Women’s Freedom Center funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • “Supporting thriving communities and promising futures for NYC girls: the Resilience, Opportunity, Safety, Education and Strength (ROSES) Program” received renewal funding from New York Community Trust. 
  • “Evaluating strengths-based multigenerational models that prevent domestic violence” subaward with Young Women’s Freedom Center funded by Blue Shield. 
• Wallington Lin and William Tsai
  • “Does First Impression Matter?: Effects of Therapist Name and Attire on Perceived Therapist Trust among Chinese International Students” funded by Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.
• Florencia Lopez Boo
  • “Report on Smart Buys for Early Childhood Interventions: An analysis using the cost of inaction methodology” funded by Theirworld UK. 
  • “Piloting the adaptation of a remote preschool program for use in active conflict contexts” subaward with Massachusetts Institute of Technology funded by J-PAL/Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI). 
• Pamela Morris-Perez 
  • Dr. Morris-Perez received a new contract from NYC Public Schools.
• Lauren Christine Mims 
  • “We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Leveraging Sisterhood to Advance Black Girl Mental Health Research & Programming” funded by the Spencer Foundation. 
• Céline Monnier 
  • “Exploring new approaches to Conflict, Violence, and Crisis Prevention in a Fragmented Global Order” subaward with Centre of Armed Groups funded by United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
• Erin O’Connor 
  • “Which Studies Shape the Narrative? Analyzing How Education Research Reaches Policy Discourse” funded by the Brady Education Foundation. 
  • “The Small Moments Study” funded by the Caplan Foundation. 
• Sophia Rodriguez and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
  • “1 in 4 Initiative: K12 Education Partnerships Hub” funded by Foundation for Child Development
• Adina Schick
  • “SEEDS (Supporting Early-childhood Education and Development through Storytelling)” received renewal funding from Robin Hood. 
• Catherine Tamis-LeMonda 
  • “Routine Math Language” received renewal funding from Robin Hood. 
• Angela Trude
  • “OPT-TEEN: Optimization Trial to Empower sElection of Nutritious foods” funded by American Diabetes Association. 
• A. Jordan Wright and Anil Chacko
  • Drs. Wright and Chacko received a new contract with Southern Smoke Foundation. 
• Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Sophia Rodriguez
  • “1 in 4 initiative: NYU Coordinating Hub Support” funded by Foundation for Child Development and “1 in 4 Initiative” funded by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees