EXTERNAL GRANTS, JUNE 2020
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As part of a new initiative, the Office for the Advancement of Research is sharing external grants secured by faculty and research staff with the John Jay community, to promote greater awareness of the research and other projects your colleagues are undertaking. OAR hopes these monthly updates will create new opportunities for collaboration and inspiration across disciplines.
The below grants were all received in June 2020. Please join us in congratulating the PIs listed below!
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SPONSOR: New York City Small Business Services
PROJECT TITLE: NYC Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP)
PERIOD: 11/1/2019 - 2/28/2022
AMOUNT: $883,574
SUMMARY: The NYC Tech Talent Pipeline funds the development of a program to expand the career readiness and success of students in our Computer Information Systems undergraduate major by delivering technical and professional training, focused career coaching, and a system of external internships where students get hands-on experience with future employers.
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SPONSOR: National Institute of Justice via Northeastern University
PROJECT TITLE: Understanding Child Labor in the United States: An Exploratory Study
PERIOD: 1/1/2020 - 12/31/2020
AMOUNT: $69,259
SUMMARY: The study seeks to fill gaps in knowledge about the experience of children who are trafficked for labor in the U.S., and how they are identified. It will collect data from four research sites, and provide insights into the key service needs of this population, including the degree to which existing services can assist these child victims.
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SPONSOR: ASIS Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Using Social Media to Gather Security Intelligence
PERIOD: 4/1/2020 - 10/31/2020
AMOUNT: $42,000
SUMMARY: This project will use a case study method to qualitatively examine social media data related to two companies in different industries, home sharing and ride sharing. It will illustrate, via these case studies, how social media data can be mined using artificial intelligence to locate security risks.
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SPONSOR: Topeka Center for Peace and Justice
PROJECT TITLE: FY20-22 Group Violence Intervention - City of Topeka, KS
PERIOD: 4/1/2020 - 12/31/2021
AMOUNT: $300,000
SPONSOR: Christopher 2X Game Changers, Inc.
PROJECT TITLE: FY20-21 Group Violence Intervention - City of Louisville, KY
PERIOD: 5/15/2020 - 5/14/2022
AMOUNT: $370,810.45
SUMMARY: The Group Violence Intervention (GVI) is designed to reduce homicide and gun violence, minimize harm to communities by replacing enforcement with deterrence, and foster stronger relationships between law enforcement and the people they serve. The National Network for Safe Communities will implement the GVI in these communities via two separate efforts.
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SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: eWitness: Seeing Can Be Believing Again
PERIOD: 6/1/2020 - 11/30/2020
AMOUNT: $50,000
SUMMARY: The project explores the commercial potential of eWitness, a blockchain backed system that establishes the provenance of digital images and videos.
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SPONSOR: University of Houston
PROJECT TITLE: Hispanic-Serving While Online: Latinx-Enhancing Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
PERIOD: 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2021
AMOUNT: $7,500
SUMMARY: This project aims to seize the current moment to intentionally design/revamp, deliver and evaluate online curricula that are Latinx-serving. Online courses will be developed that are intentional in addressing the pedagogical shortcomings of traditional online learning for Latinx students, and outcomes will be evaluated across two locations, New York City and El Paso, Texas.
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SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: RAPID: Collaborative Research: Immunological adaptations in bats to moderate the effect of coronavirus infection
PERIOD: 6/15/2020 - 5/31/2021
AMOUNT: $21,310
SUMMARY: The team of researchers is analyzing genomes of different bat species to try to identify the genetic means by which bats can carry a wide range of viruses without becoming ill.
SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: RAPID: Collaborative Research: Bat goblet cells as immuno-hotspots for infection of coronavirus
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $21,310
SUMMARY: The symptoms of COVID-19 suggest that cells in the nasal passages are first to be affected by the virus. Researchers will test the hypothesis that bats with nasal anatomy similar to humans have a specific composition of the lining of their respiratory tract, evolved to prevent viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 from infecting them.
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SPONSOR: National Endowment for the Humanities
PROJECT TITLE: Supporting Contingent Humanities Faculty and Online Learning at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY in 2020
PERIOD: 6/15/2020 - 12/31/2020
AMOUNT: $296,645
SUMMARY: This NEH CARES grant will save the jobs of nine humanities adjunct professors and train 62 adjunct humanities professors in creating effective online humanities courses during the COVID-19 crisis, through a 3-week online workshop.
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Renewals for Multi-Year Awards
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SPONSOR: Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice
PROJECT TITLE: College and Reentry Services Initiative
PERIOD: 7/1/2020 - 6/30/2021
AMOUNT: $1,949,650
SUMMARY: The College Initiative creates pathways to higher education for people with past criminal legal system involvement. It has been a program of the John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity since 2015.
Year 4
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