Nurturing Faculty Careers
Online Deception
Jeff Hancock, associate professor of communication and member of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, received a small grant to investigate the linguistic features of online deception. As a result of this preliminary work, Hancock and his team received a $680,000 award from the National Science Foundation to continue the research, which has application to business hiring practices, online dating, and national security tracking—and which he is exploring more deeply as an ISS Faculty Fellow.
The Faculty Fellows Program invigorates the Institute for the Social Sciences’ environment of intellectual exchange and scholarship by nurturing the careers of Cornell’s most promising assistant and associate faculty members in the social sciences.
During their in-residence semester at ISS, fellows are provided with an office at the ISS, given time away from teaching and most departmental responsibilities, and awarded a grant of $10,000 to enable them to focus on their research.
The fellowship program is intended to promote intellectual exchange, encourage interdisciplinary scholarship, and provide opportunities for rising tenure-track and tenured faculty to connect.
The seed funding also helps faculty flesh out new ideas and projects that often receive subsequent external funding.
The Faculty Fellows Program sends a strong message that Cornell recognizes and values promising new faculty research and serves as a great tool for recruiting the best social scientists.