The winners of this year’s CEHD Research Acceleration seed grant program have been announced. Open to all CEHD faculty and P&A researchers, the program gives out awards in two project classes: Developmental and Jump Start.

The Developmental Project award of $200,000 over two years was presented to Gail Ferguson (Institute of Child Development), Saida Abdi (School of Social Work (SSW)), Lisa Harnack (School of Public Health), Roli Dwivedi (Community-University Health Care Center), Michelle Nelson (University of Illinois), and Regina Ahn (University of Miami). Their project is “The Roles of Acculturation and Media in the Nutrition of Immigrant and Refugee Families.”

The Developmental Project program is designed to grow existing interdisciplinary partnerships and support novel studies that break new ground or extend previous work in new directions.

Two Jump Start project proposals of $25,000 each were awarded this year. One went to Renáta Tichá, (Institute on Community Integration (ICI)), Wei Song (ICI), Vianne Nguyen-Feng (psychology, U of M Duluth), and Brian Abery (ICI) for “Ecological Momentary Assessment of Leisure Activity Participation among Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.”

The second Jump Start project award was given to Timothy Piehler (Department of Family Social Science/Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health (ITR)), Mimi Choy-Brown (SSW/ITR), Ann Becher-Ingwalson (Natalis Counseling and Psychology Solutions), Julie Rohovit (SSW/Center for Practice Transformation), Ken Winters (Oregon Research Institute), and Nicole Morrell (ITR) for “The Development of a New Intervention for Adolescents with Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness.”