The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants from 16 proposals in its 2008 Seed Grant Competition. Selections were based on the projects' potential to advance research by junior faculty, to generate external funding and to bring long-term benefits to international studies at Cornell.

Recipients are:

Summaries of the seed grant proposals and information about the next seed grant competition, with applications due Jan. 15, 2009, are online at http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/funding/seed.asp.