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:

• John J. Barceló (law) and Harry de Gorter (applied economics and management); $10,000 to study World Trade Organization disciplines and biofuels;
• Shelley Feldman (Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program) and Charles Geisler (development sociology); $7,500 to study security, rights, dispossession and surveillance -- the process of social displacement and militarization;
• Philip McMichael (development sociology); $10,000 to study the world food crisis as a lens on global development and food regime transitions; and
• Mark B. Milstein (Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise); $7,500 to study building university capabilities for enterprise development in emerging economies.

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.