Project Grant 2123574

This two-year, $286,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support research investigating the importance of bone marrow consumption in human evolution. Specifically, the grant will fund an early career scientist to conduct independent research under the sponsorship of Colorado State University analyzing bone breakage patterns from modern animal bone collections and zooarchaeological samples. Using new 3D scanning and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $128,798 to Northern Kentucky University to conduct a longitudinal assessment of the impact of early life adversity on the development of social behavior in a non-human primate species. The study aims to contribute to the understanding of the evolution of the juvenile period and the proximate mechanisms underlying the relationship between early life...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant totaling $264,600 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Health Sciences Division) on September 26, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The research project, titled "From Child Maltreatment to Violence Involvement: Life Course Pathways, Trajectories, and Patterns," will deliver...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $184,647 supports research on understanding variation in patterns of aging in primates through an integrative comparative approach. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the three-year award to Arizona State University will analyze biological aging trajectories and individual differences across the lifespan using a longitudinal dataset of over 100 wild-living non-human primates. Key products include...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Arizona State University received a $100,228 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), awarded December 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for June 30, 2028. The grant funds a longitudinal research study examining trajectories of sibling relationship quality in childhood and their associations with mental and physical health...

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research into the development of social cognition in children. Specifically, the grant supports an early career scientist to conduct a large-scale investigation examining how children's understanding of other minds emerges throughout the preschool years. Leveraging recent advances in online developmental science, the fellow will validate an updated mental state...

Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded $1.54M to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on September 10, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2030. This Project Grant funds research investigating the developmental origins and contributing factors of the approximate number system—a foundational cognitive ability that enables children to distinguish...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a K23 Career Development Award totaling $172,623 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on April 15, 2026, with a completion date of May 31, 2031. Under this award, Dr. Camilia Kamoun will develop patient-oriented research outcomes (PROS) measures to assess the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $140,343 to Emory University for collaborative research examining foundations of learning through individual variation, plasticity, and evolution in humans and closely related great ape species. The research focuses on analyzing archived brain images and samples from previous studies of bonobos and...

This Project Grant award of $325,038 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports research and development of a psychological intervention to improve emotional well-being in family caregivers of children with medical complexity (CMC). Awarded to the University of Pittsburgh on August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028, the project...