Claire D. Cornell

Claire Diane Cornell provides grants, proposal development and program management consulting to clients like George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), the Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ), Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA), and various other colleges, universities, hospitals, and non-profits. As the Director of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Grants Division, Ms. Cornell has secured more than $47.9 million in grant awards for Puerto Rico’s government offices, colleges, universities, nonprofits and private companies.

Before coming to Washington, Ms. Cornell created and managed large grants operations at the Universities of South Carolina and Iowa. While employed by South Carolina, she developed science, mathematics, and engineering grants for research and teaching. While at the University of Iowa, she developed grants for the Graduate College’s 100+ doctoral programs, for 42 Departments in the College of Liberal Arts, and all facets of the UI College of Business.

Ms. Cornell has published articles on grants development and she has produced presentations for international business conference proceedings. She is a frequent speaker at national meetings of associations and organizations (e.g., the Council of Graduate Schools) and she develops and conducts grants training for academic institutions, non-profits, government agencies, and community-based organizations. Ms. Cornell has a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Queens College of the City University of New York.