Hard Questions Grant - Incite at Columbia University
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Hard Questions Grant
- Grant Value Up to $75,000
- Seeded Project(s) 3
Across disciplines, scholars are grappling with novel problems or previously unasked questions that require innovative, perhaps pioneering, approaches or analyses. Research of this sort carries a great risk of failure and, so, can be hard to gain funding.
In support of the Columbia University Arts and Sciences Hard Questions strategic priority, Incite Institute is funding seed grants for initiatives whose boldness carries the risk of such failure, whose further success requires the unlikely data collection, the untested method, the unexpected analyses in order for the project to be funded at scale.
Applications are currently closed.
Incubated Projects
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go to Cartographies of Massacres: Visual and Spatial Methods in Human Rights Research
Cartographies of Massacres: Visual and Spatial Methods in Human Rights ResearchThis project examines how communities process generational trauma by combining human rights research with innovative visual and spatial methods, focusing on massacres in Israel/Palestine between 1947 and 1949. Part of the Hard Questions Grant
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go to Hidden Justice: An Ethnographic Examination of U.S. Immigration Courts
Hidden Justice: An Ethnographic Examination of U.S. Immigration CourtsThrough the Immigration Research Hub, undergraduate students at Columbia, Princeton, and California State University–Long Beach are trained to observe courtroom dynamics of immigration courts firsthand. Part of the Hard Questions Grant
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go to How Does the Brain Control Social Recognition and Social Memory?
How Does the Brain Control Social Recognition and Social Memory?By pioneering naked mole-rats as a new model for neuroscience, the project aims to uncover mechanisms of social memory more relevant to humans than traditional mouse studies. Part of the Hard Questions Grant
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go to Assembling Voices
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go to Don Quixote Award
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go to Global Change Program
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go to Incite Institute Dissertation Fellowship
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