Active Grants

Initiative: Youth Development and Resilience Initiative

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Active Grants:

Project Title: The Effects of Teacher Practices on Peer Victimization and Defending Behaviors
Dates: 2019-2022
Funder: National Science Foundation
PI: Russell Toomey and Jina Yoon

Project Title: Standing Up, Speaking Out: Reducing Prejudice in Sports

Dates: 2020-2021
Funder: National Collegiate Athletic Association ($25,000)
PI: Russell Toomey and Dr. Christine McGeorge

Project Title: Utilizing Gender Minority Perspectives to Describe and Operationalize Affirming Behavior Health Outcomes of Peer-Led Support Groups for Gender Minorities in New Mexico
Dates: 2019-2021
Funder: Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center for Advancing Behavioral Health
PI: Russell Toomey and Dr. Ralph Klotzbaugh

 

Initiative: Early Relationships and Children's Development

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Active Grants:

Project Title: Independent and Interactive Links between Individual and Classroom-level Teacher-Child Relationship Quality and Children’s Early Learning Outcomes

Dates of Project: (Pending) 7/2018-6/2020
Funder: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Education
Principal Investigator: Melissa A. Barnett (Co-PI: Katherine Speirs, Christina Cutshaw, Jennifer Mortensen & Ann Mastergeorge)

Project Title: Family Literacy Program Pathways: Impacts on Parent-Child Interactions and Early Learning Outcomes
Dates of Project: (Pending) 6/2018-12/2021
Funder: BradyEducation Foundation
Principal Investigator: Melissa A. Barnett (in partnership with Make Way for Books)

 

Initiative: Latinx Families

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Active Grants:

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Puberty and Sociocultural Experiences in Mexican-Origin Boys
Dates of Project: 7/2019-6/2023
Funder: National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator: Katie Zeiders, Dr. Ada Wilkinson-Lee, Dr. Antoinette Landor, and Dr. Lindsay Hoyt

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Mexican American Language Brokers' Multiple Levels of Stress and Academic and Health Outcomes
Dates of Project: 6/2017-6/2020
Funder: National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator: Katie Zeiders and Dr. Su Yeong Kim

Project Title: Collaborative Research: Stress, Academic Outcomes, and Health Outcomes among Language Brokers
Dates of Project: 6/15/2015-5/31/2020
Funder: National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator: Katie Zeiders

Project Title: School Climate: Responding to Latino Youths' Educational and Socioemotional Inequality
Dates of Project: 3/2018-3/2020
Funder: W.T. Grant Foundation
Principal Investigator: Melissa Delgado

Project Title: Understanding Positive School Climate Among Linguistically Diverse Latino Adolescents
Dates of Project: (pending-submitted 11/2017)
Funder: National Science Foundation
Principal Investigator: Rajni Nair
Co-Principal Investigator: Melissa Delgado

 

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