Up to 20 early-stage research projects will receive funding from this year’s Global Hubs Research Seed Grants, connecting Cornell faculty with researchers at Global Hubs partner universities. Applications are due Oct. 15. 

The awards provide $5,000 to projects that kickstart or expand collaborative research with Hubs partners. The grants are open to Cornell principal investigators in all academic fields on the Ithaca, Cornell Tech and AgriTech campuses.

Global Cornell has awarded more than $677,000 since fall 2022 to 131 Cornell-Hubs faculty teams, with matching funds from 12 Global Hubs partner universities and contributions from Weill Cornell Medicine. Past grants have connected collaborators on an array of projects, including AI and the workplace, ecosystems in the Amazon rainforest and public health interventions. 

For principal investigator Buz Barstow, PhD ’09, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, early-stage support helped grow the collaboration and lay the groundwork for further funding. With collaborators including PIs at two Global Hubs United Kingdom partners, Barstow’s international research team secured a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to catalog microorganisms used for sustainable biomining practices. 

Interested applicants can review the full list of Global Hubs partners and proposal timeline on the Global Cornell website. Award decisions will be made by Dec. 17.