Hard Questions Grant

Hard Questions Grant is sponsored by Incite Institute at Columbia University. This grant supports research that tackles hard questions with innovative approaches, particularly those considered too risky for traditional funding mechanisms. While not directly tied to the DOE INCITE call, it supports high-risk, high-reward research.

Hard Questions Grant - Incite at Columbia University Hard Questions Grant - Incite at Columbia University 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.

go to Cartographies of Massacres: Visual and Spatial Methods in Human Rights Research Cartographies of Massacres: Visual and Spatial Methods in Human Rights Research This 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 go to Hidden Justice: An Ethnographic Examination of U.S. Immigration Courts Hidden Justice: An Ethnographic Examination of U.S. Immigration Courts Through 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 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 Supporting US-based artists, writers, scholars, journalists, performers, activists, workers, and others with compelling ideas for public initiatives. Funded by Incite Institute Supporting idealistic, romantic, creative, impractical, adventurous projects born of teachers’ passions with awards up to $5,000.

In Partnership with Academy for Teachers go to Global Change Program Supporting leaders around the world who engage communities to address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Funded by Incite Institute For project ideas that don’t fit our funding programs—but fit our mission—and can be executed for $5,000 or less. Funded by Incite Institute Live search input: start typing to see results in real-time.