Awards for Researchers

The BCTR offers two fellowships for faculty to enhance their translational research and assist the BCTR in its growth and development:

The Evalyn Edwards Milman BCTR Faculty Fellowship and The Morgan Engaged Faculty Fellowship

 Awards are made every two years, current fellowships run through June 2027

Evalyn Edwards Milman Fellowship – awarded to tenured or tenure-track Cornell Human Ecology faculty with a very active research program, a demonstrated plan for engaging in translational research and a commitment to assisting the BCTR in its growth and development.

The selection is made by the BCTR director, in consultation with the faculty member’s department chair and the dean of Cornell Human Ecology.

Preference is given to someone focused on the needs of younger children from a wide variety of disciplines including cognitive development, nutrition, psychology, design, economics, sociology, and public health, but would not include research in areas relating to medicine — including research into vaccines.

Current Milman Fellow: Renata Leitão

Renata Leitão is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design. She is a graphic designer and social design researcher. Her research focuses on the interplay between the ideas we hold about the world (paradigms, ideals, imaginaries and meta-narratives) and the kind of tangible worlds we design. Leitão leads the Pluriversal Futures Design Lab; its mission is to foster societal transformation by addressing the limitations of how current environmental and social crises have been addressed.

Morgan Engaged Faculty Fellowship – Named for Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan, it is awarded to tenured or tenure-track Cornell Human Ecology faculty whose work is in line with the BCTR mission of expanding, strengthening and speeding the connections between cutting-edge research and efforts to enhance human development, health and well-being.

Current Morgan Fellow: Corinna Loeckenhoff

Corinna Loeckenhoff is the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor of Developmental Psychology at Cornell Human Ecology. Loeckenhoff leads the Healthy Aging Lab, focusing on adult development and aging and how factors like a person’s motivations, emotions, life events, cognition and social relationships affect their health-related decisions. She directs CHE’s gerontology minor and is co-investigator for the Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL); both are aging-related initiatives affiliated with the BCTR.