Research Areas

Family and the Life Course

Currently Funded Projects

 

  • Mississippi Institute for Improvement of Geographic Minority Health for Rural and Minority Physicians in Mississippi: Their Importance for Access, awarded to MSU SSRC
  •  Exploratory Research for Data-Driven Research on Academic Interdisciplinary Research Teams. Funding awarded for HSD competition FY 2006 August 12, 2006
  • UB2020 Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund. Four Seasons: Midlife and Older Adults in the Buffalo Niagara Region. UB-IRDF funded pilot research grant
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Work-Family Career Development Grant Program, “Women’s Family and Work Trajectories: Implications for Later Life Income Security.”
  • National Institute of Child Health and Development, The Science and Ecology of Early Development Program, “Dynamic Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Children in  Family and School Contexts”

    

Past Projects

  • National Institute on Aging, Project Title: “Satisfaction and Retention of Staff in Assisted Living,”2004–2007.
  • "Effects of Sports Participation on Adolescent Sexual Behavior."