This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $370,236 to the University of South Florida to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher-child language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to examine how often preschool teachers engage in language interactions with students, whether certain children receive fewer or briefer interactions,...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $170,296 to Teachers College, Columbia University to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationships among maternal stress, epigenetic aging, and cognitive/behavioral development in early childhood. The 2-year project aims to: 1) Investigate stress-related...
This Project Grant award of $777,954 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) will fund a mixed-method study to assess the impact of school environment attributes on adolescent cardiovascular risk and maternal morbidity. The primary objectives are to: 1) create a school-based adolescent preconception cohort by linking school environment, adolescent health, and Medicaid birth data; 2) engage adolescents and...
This federal Project Grant award of $752,991 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research (CFDA 93.837) program supports a comprehensive study to understand the socioecological factors impacting disparities in early childhood sleep health. The project aims to evaluate the effects of understudied risk factors like racism, housing insecurity, screen media use, and toxic stress on child sleep health, as well as assess how socio-cultural,...
This Project Grant award, totaling $556,806.00, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The project aims to assess the causal effects of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) on students' short- and long-term health care utilization, behavioral, educational, and economic outcomes. Using difference-in-difference models, the research will examine...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $109,799 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research. The grant supports a collaborative research project to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to provide insights into how preschool language experiences shape children's language...
This Project Grant award of $2,424,192, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports a research project titled "Predicting Intervention Outcomes in Reading Disabled Students Using In-School Cognitive Neuroscience". The primary objectives of this award are to: 1) Establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in reading disabled...
This Project Grant award of $431,750.00, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop algorithms for predicting behavioral outbursts in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using wearable biosensor data and advanced machine learning models. The key objectives of this 2-year award are to: 1) collect a novel dataset of physiological and movement...
This $1,227,590 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the acquisition of a mobile, integrated behavior-brain-physiology capture system for studying human behavior and neurodevelopment. Led by Dr. Jessica Bradshaw and collaborators at the University of South Carolina and the Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment Research Center, this multi-modal system synchronizes recordings of behavior, brain activity, autonomic function,...
This Project Grant award of $443,720 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA #93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) is funding a study on the impact of Mexico's mandatory pre-primary education reform on learning outcomes in primary school. The study will use nationwide longitudinal data from the Mexican education system to: Examine the effects of mandatory pre-primary on primary school entry ages, grade retention, and student achievement...