External Deadline: September 2025 (anticipated) Internal Deadline: July 14, 2025
The foundation has not yet posted the RFP for the upcoming 2025-2026 submission cycle. This
internal competition is announced in anticipation to allow prospective applicants sufficient time.
Information in this announcement is subject to change.
Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program, please submit the materials requested below to clinicalresearchdean@med.cornell.edu no later than July 14, 2025, at 11:59 PM.
Budget: The award supports 50% of a Scholar’s salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap, with 10% institutional costs for the salary and benefits. The Foundation provides an additional $5,000 per year for project support and travel. No IDCs.
Number of Applications: 1 application (shared with Ithaca)
Program Description:
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae.
Each year, the Foundation selects approximately three Greenwall Faculty Scholars to receive 50 percent salary support for three years to enable them to develop their research program.
Faculty Scholars will be selected on the basis of their achievements, the strength of their research project, their commitment to the field of bioethics, and support from their home institution, including after the end of this award. While the amount and quality of an applicant's research in bioethics will count favorably towards his/her application, outstanding candidates with less direct experience in bioethics will also be considered when their proposed work aims to advance the bioethics field.
Within this group, priority will be given to applicants whose research addresses innovative ideas and/or emerging topics. Lower priority will be given to applicants who are primarily carrying out educational reform or theoretical work with limited applicability to practice, research, or health care delivery. The Greenwall Foundation particularly welcomes applicants from backgrounds that are under-represented in bioethics and academia.
Please note that The Foundation does not fund:
- Scholars to carry out bioethics teaching, institutional change, or quality improvement on bioethics issues. We expect, however, that Greenwall Faculty Scholars, and the students they teach, will do such activities during their careers.
- Theoretical ethics research without clear application to pressing, real-world problems in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice.
- Survey research or qualitative research that touches on a bioethics issue unless there is a strong conceptual analysis of the bioethics issue or thoughtful analysis of the bioethics implications of the empirical findings. We are, however, interested in bioethics researchers who want to work on conceptual or normative analysis linked to their empirical findings.
- Basic science research that has implications for a bioethics issue.
- Bioethics work directed towards predetermined conclusions.
See the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program website for details.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be junior-level faculty members.
- Applicants must hold a faculty appointment that allows at least 50% of their effort to perform research (often this is a faculty position with at least a 60% appointment in a tenure-track position or its equivalent).
- Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure or an equivalent promotion; whose research will have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice; and who will make important contributions to the field of bioethics over their careers.
Application Requirements
Cornell is limited to submitting 1 nominee. Due to this limitation an internal selection process will be coordinated. Department Chairs/Division Heads may submit no more than two nominations from their department/division.
Note: Chairs/Division Heads submitting more than one nomination must provide an assessment commenting on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees to researchdean@med.cornell.edu.
Internal submissions should contain the following information:
- A 1- to 2-page letter of nomination (from Department Chair/Division Head) detailing why the candidate should be considered.
- A 3-page, single-spaced letter of intent, with one-inch margins and font size no smaller than 12 point, that includes:
- A description of the research proposal, particularly its significance
- How the research will be carried out and how it is likely to have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice
- A personal statement describing the applicant's goals in the field of bioethics
- Biosketch, no more than 5 single-spaced pages
Submit the items listed above to clinicalresearchdean@med.cornell.edu no later than July 14, 2025, at 11:59 PM in the order listed as one PDF document using the naming convention PI last name-first initial_Greenwall2025.pdf (see example below).
Example: Smith-J_Greenwall2025.pdf
- Basic Science
- Biochemistry/Biophysics
- Clinical Science
- Community Health
- Healthcare Policy
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology/Cell Biology
- Junior Faculty