Grants & Awards
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service through Diversity
The award honors faculty who have made an outstanding impact in research or creative work, teaching and mentoring, and/or service in outreach in diversity.
Grant Review Awards
Grant Review awards are designed to support grant applications to external funders. OFDD offers a $500 honorarium to a colleague external to Cornell who agrees ro review a completed grant application before it is submitted or resubmitted to an outside granting agency . To apply, send an email to ofdd@cornell.edu.
Professional Development Grants
Aimed to heighten the professional visibility of pre-tenure faculty, these grants fund interactions with senior colleagues at other institutions and professional training opportunities.
The Schwartz Research Fund
Awarded to Ithaca, Geneva-based and Cornell Tech faculty who enhance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the university and whose work is in the life sciences at Cornell. The faculty display outstanding promise for conducting creative research. The primary goal is to provide seed money for investment in pilot experiments that generate novel preliminary data or open a significant new line of inquiry.
Schwartz Research Fund Visionary Grant
Awarded to Ithaca, Cornell Tech, and Geneva-based faculty who enhance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the university whose work is in the life sciences at Cornell.
Small Group Mentoring Program
OFDD’s Small Group Mentoring Program (SGMP) brings together 3-9 faculty who share an interest in a broad topic, a discipline or disciplinary group or career stage. The goal is to move the group members’ careers forward through mentorship and support.