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| How Do State Policies Affect Access to TANF Benefits?
Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Period: 2019 - 2020 Project Summary: This study, conducted by Donna Ginther and Michelle Johnson-Motoyama of the Ohio State University, will examine how states chose policies related to work requirements, incentives, diversion, exemptions, and sanctions. It will also examine how these policies affected the equity of access to TANF across states from 1999 to 2018. Building on work from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded research, a pilot study indicated that restrictions on TANF benefits significantly reduced TANF caseloads. This research will gather detailed data on state TANF policies and use that to model the determinants of state policy changes and the impact of these policies on access to TANF. |
| Kansas Entrepreneurship Report Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: Enterprise Center of Johnson County Period: 2019 - 2020 Project Summary: This project will provide an analysis of how the State of Kansas currently supports entrepreneurship through an inventory and analysis of programs supported by the Kansas Department of Commerce over the past decade. It will provide a comparison to programs supported by the surrounding states of Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Iowa; look at selected best practices in other states; and develop recommendations for how Kansas can improve basedon that comparison. IPSR will provide informational materials to the Kansas legislature to inform their work in designing policies and programs to enhance opportunities to support and grow new and young businesses around the state. |
| Research GO: A Pilot Ancient DNA Study of the Ancestors of the Wichita Principal Investigator: Jennifer Raff Funding Agency: University of Kansas Research GO Period: 2019 - 2020 Project Summary: This project focuses on ancient DNA research in the Central and Southern Plains, a region vitThis project will demonstrate the feasibility of larger-scale research on ancient DNA in the Central and Southern Plains, a region vital to understanding the history and relationships of the Indigenous Peoples of North America. This research is being conducted with permission from and in collaboration with representatives of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. |
| Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium: School Procurement Policies and Practices in Kansas City Principal Investigator: Karin Chang Funding Agency: Tri-State Research and Evaluation Services Period: 2019 - 2019 Project Summary: |
| Doctoral Dissertation Research: Why Has the Meritocratic Power of Advanced Degrees Declined? The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Upward Mobility Principal Investigator: ChangHwan Kim Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2018 - 2019 Project Summary: This project will analyze income returns to education for adults who achieve various levels of higher education. The project will analyze over 150,000 respondents aged 35-54 from the 2003, 2010, 2013 and 2015 National Survey of College Graduates data and the IPUMS 5% Census data with at least a bachelor's degree and having a positive income. The project will use log-multiplicative layer effect and multivariate regression models to examine the extent to which vertical selection, horizontal selection, and cumulative advantage explain income level differences. The project will also study gender differences in these processes as well as how these effects have changed over time. The project will inform sociological theories concerned with social mobility and the role of social selection into various types of higher education in the United States. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801820&HistoricalAwards=false  |
| Research grants for preventing violence and violence-related injury Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: The Ohio State University Period: 2018 - 2019 Project Summary: University of Kansas and the Ohio State University researchers have received a grant to determine how economic and social safety net policies affect child neglect across the United States and create a tool policy makers and practitioners can use to predict how proposed prevention strategies can address child abuse and neglect. Donna Ginther, professor of economics and director of KU's Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy, is working with Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, of the Ohio State University, on the three-year, $1.05 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control. The KU Institute for Policy & Social Research assisted with the development of the grant proposal and will manage the CDC award. The project will study the various changes to economic and social safety net policies by state from 1995 until 2014 - the most recent year for which data is available - and if those changes affect state-level changes in child neglect rates. Continue reading at link below. https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9234830&icde=32972365 |
| Evaluation of the Donnelly College Minority Science & Engineering Improvement Program Principal Investigator: Karin Chang Funding Agency: Donnelly College Period: 2018 - 2019 Project Summary: KC-AERC will complete a three-year evaluation of the Donnelly College MSEIP Program. |
| Lead to Read KC Project Evaluation Principal Investigator: Karin Chang Funding Agency: Lead to Read KC Period: 2018 - 2020 Project Summary: |
| Yet We Rise: Tenuring Indigenous People's Lands in the U.S. Principal Investigator: Joseph Brewer II Funding Agency: Indian Land Tenure Foundation Period: 2018 - 2019 Project Summary: This project supports development of a book on the working knowledge of Indigenous people's land tenure in the U.S. Tenuring Indigenous people's land in the United States has providen to be contentious. Joseph Brewer II conceptualizes land tenure not as an outcome, but as a process, oriented towards why tenuring Indigenous people's lands in the United States is a story yet to be told by those who work on these issues, beyond the common political or legal frameworks used to understand land tenure. Learning from the working knowledge of professionals in the field positions Indigeonsou people's land tenure as the foremost pressing issue of our time. |
| Digital Inequalities in the Heartland: Exploring the information Security Experiences of Marginalized Internet Users Principal Investigator: William Staples Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2017 - 2019 Project Summary: Bill Staples, Professor and Chair of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center, and Warren (Perry) Alexander, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, received a Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace NSF EAGER award to explore the information security experiences of marginalized internet users who rely on public libraries for broadband internet access. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742815 |
| Scientific Productivity Data of SDR Sample through Linkage: Expanded Manual Validation Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: SRI International Period: 2017 - 2020 Project Summary: SRI International requested that the Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy (CSTEP) at the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas propose a method for validating publication records matched to the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR). The purpose of this project is to verify independently the publications matches made by SRI for a sample of about 750 names from the SDR. Of the 750 names, 250 will also be verified by researchers at Ohio State University, who will design their own verification methods. Verification will rely on information such as age, gender, place of employment, and academic field available from the SDR as well as information attached to SDR records by SRI. |
| Evaluation of the MCPL Summer Reading Program Principal Investigator: Karin Chang Funding Agency: Mid-Continent Public Library Period: 2017 - 2018 Project Summary: |
| Kansas City Public School Needs Assessment Principal Investigator: Karin Chang Funding Agency: Hazley & Associates, LLC Period: 2017 - 2018 Project Summary: Karin Chang, Director of the Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium (KC-AERC), will conduct a needs assessment for the Kansas City Public Schools. |
| When Can Money Close Achievement Gaps? School Funding and Class Inequality of Education Achievement Principal Investigator: Emily Rauscher Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation Period: 2017 - 2018 Project Summary: University of Kansas researcher, Emily Rauscher, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has received a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to look at the relationship between school funding and academic achievement gaps by socioeconomic status. The study will identify types of funding or contexts in which funding might hold the most potential to improve socioeconomic equality of educational achievement. Armed with a more complete understanding of when funding matters, policymakers will be better equipped to fight the chronic inequality that haunts our educational system and society. The research seeks to understand and counteract intergenerational inequality. Read more in the KU press release below. https://naeducation.org/naedspencer-postdoctoral-fellowship-program/2017-naedspencer-postdoctoral-fellows/ |
| L.A.D Global Enterprises, Inc. Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: L.A.D Global Enterprises, Inc. Period: 2017 - 2017 Project Summary: |
| Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigration, Mixed-Status Families, Risk Management and Vulnerability Principal Investigator: Cecilia Menjívar Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2017 - 2018 Project Summary: Andrea Gomez Cervantes received a dissertation award from the National Science Foundation for doctoral students in Sociology. Gomez Cervantes' project examines the challenges that mixed-status families (those with a variety of legal statuses in the same family, such as undocumented, semi-legal or citizens) face in Kansas. She will conduct a qualitative study of sixty in-depth interviews with indigenous (Mixteco and Tlapaneco) and non-indigenous Latino mixed-status family members in Kansas. Her advisor, Cecilia Menjívar Chavez, serves as PI. Dr. Menjívar Chavez is Co-Director of the Center for Migration Research at IPSR. IPSR provided research and grant development assistance and will administer the award. See link below for more information. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1702837&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Collaborative Research: Climate Risk Governance and Polycentrism in the US States. REU Supplement Principal Investigator: Dorothy Marie Daley Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2017 - 2017 Project Summary: Dorthy Daley, IPSR affiliate and Associate Professor of Pubic Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, has received funding from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study on state and local climate risk governance. This project brings together a team of researchers and practitioners to better understand what type of climate governance results in improved environmental performance. Read more in the full press release below. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431082&HistoricalAwards=false |
| EAGER: CeMENT as a Networking Experiment Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2017 - 2018 Project Summary: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547054&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Doctoral Dissertation Research: Environmental Risk Versus Economic Prosperity: Climate Change Denial and the Politics of Coastal Restoration in Southern Louisiana Principal Investigator: Eric Allen Hanley Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2017 - 2018 Project Summary: Jacob Lipsman will receive dissertation funding from the National Science Foundation for doctoral students in Sociology. His project focuses on the central questions of how residents in southeast Louisiana interpret the relationship between environmental security and economic prosperity in their community, and how the negotiation of these two social priorities plays out in local political processes. The project will analyze the role of climate change attitudes in these political processes, examining how climate change is interpreted in this community that exhibits high levels of environmental awareness at the same time as high levels of climate change denial. His advisor, Eric Hanley, serves at PI. IPSR provided research and grant development assistance and will administer the award. More information available at link below. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1703120&HistoricalAwards=false |
| A Proposal to Study the North Kansas City School District Extended School Calendar Year Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: North Kansas City Schools Period: 2016 - 2019 Project Summary: |
| Johnson County Community College STEM Scholarship Project Principal Investigator: Karin Chang Funding Agency: Johnson County Community College Period: 2016 - 2021 Project Summary: |
| KU Entrepreneurship Works for Kansas - Phase III Principal Investigator: Wallace W. Meyer, Jr. Funding Agency: U.S. Economic Development Administration Period: 2016 - 2018 Project Summary: In August 2013, KU Entrepreneurship Works for Kansas received $545,000 in University Center funding from the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA). The Center is designed to enhance economic conditions and drive employment in Kansas and the Midwest through programs in entrepreneurship, the biosciences, and technology. The five-year project is a new award building on the success of a previous EDA Center grant, received in 2007. https://entr.ku.edu/cherry-picked-school-business-initiative-receives-renewed-federal-grant  |
| Doctoral Dissertation Research: How Frontline Work Identifies and Categorizes Human Trafficking Principal Investigator: Hannah E. Britton Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2016 - 2018 Project Summary: Corinne Schwarz, a doctoral student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has received a dissertation improvement grant from the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation. She will study frontline responses to vulnerability, exploitation, and trafficking in communities across Kansas and Missouri. Schwarz's advisor is Hannah Britton, Director of the Center for the Study of Injustice (CSI) at the Institute for Policy & Social Research. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624317&HistoricalAwards=false |
| EAGER: Data Infrastructure to Enhance Research on the Scientific Workforce Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2016 - 2017 Project Summary: Donna Ginther, Professor of Economics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation. The project will build on previous research done using data collected by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) the scientific workforce, developing and distributing data enhancements that will make this valuable data accessible to the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) community. Ginther is the Director of the Center of Science Technology & Economic Policy at the Institute for Policy & Social Research. https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647187&HistoricalAwards=false |
| The Heartland Sexual Assault Policies & Prevention on Campuses Project Principal Investigator: Alesha E. Doan Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Period: 2016 - 2019 Project Summary: The Heartland Sexual Assault Policies & Prevention on Campuses Project aims to help post-secondary schools prevent sexual assaults on campus based on a gender-centered public health framework. The award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health to work with institutions in Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, including KU and Kansas State University. The research team includes Alesha Doan, KU associate professor of political science and in the School of Public Affairs and Administration and the grant's principal investigator; Juliana Carlson, assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare, and Natabhona Mabachi, a research assistant professor of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Doan and Carlson are faculty affiliates of the KU Institute for Policy & Social Research, which developed and will administer the grant. http://news.ku.edu/2016/07/29/ku-researchers-land-hhs-grant-aid-regional-universities-sexual-assault-prevention  |
| Geographic Analysis of Allotment on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation Principal Investigator: Joseph Brewer II Funding Agency: Indian Land Tenure Foundation Period: 2016 - 2018 Project Summary: |
| Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes Principal Investigator: Victor Agadjanian Funding Agency: Pennsylvania State University Period: 2016 - 2017 Project Summary: |
| Exploring the Causal Impacts of Economic and Social Safety Net Policies on Child Neglect in the U.S.: Implications for Primary Prevention Principal Investigator: Michelle Johnson-Motoyama Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control Period: 2016 - 2019 Project Summary: University of Kansas researchers have received a grant to determine how economic and social safety net policies affect child neglect across the United States and create a tool policy makers and practitioners can use to predict how proposed prevention strategies can address child abuse and neglect. Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, associate professor of social welfare, and Donna Ginther, professor of economics and director of KU's Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy, will lead the three-year, $1.05 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control. The KU Institute for Policy & Social Research assisted with the development of the grant proposal and will manage the CDC award. The project will study the various changes to economic and social safety net policies by state from 1995 until 2014 - the most recent year for which data is available - and if those changes affect state-level changes in child neglect rates. Continue reading at link below. https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9234830&icde=32972365  |
| Local Scholarship Adoption Analysis Principal Investigator: Jacob T. Fowles Funding Agency: Education Commission of the States Period: 2016 - 2017 Project Summary:  |
| Collaborative Research: EAGER: Automating HERD Reporting Using Machine Learning Administrative Data Principal Investigator: Rodolfo Torres Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2015 - 2017 Project Summary: Rodolfo Torres, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Mathematics, and Jun Huan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with Joshua Rosenbloom of the National Bureau of Economic Research, were recently awarded $176,071 by the National Science Foundation for a project to utilize data collected as part of the STAR METRICS® program to examine the relationship between science funding, employment and outcome metrics. Their project is to develop and implement machine learning algorithms with two specific goals. The first is to develop tools to leverage university administrative data to automate the essential and time-consuming step of classifying projects by science areas and purpose required to respond to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD). The second is to gain a better understanding of the similarities/differences in the data reported for HERD and STAR METRICS® and how both surveys could be improved by reporting additional data. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547464&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bridging Knowledge Systems to Improve Ecosystem Management along the Yukon River, Alaska Principal Investigator: Jay T. Johnson Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2015 - 2017 Project Summary: Victoria Walsey has received a dissertation improvement grant from the Arctic Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation. Victoria Walsey, a doctoral student in Geography, will explore and document knowledge held by Indigenous fishers along the Yukon River in Alaska. Victoria's advisor is Jay T. Johnson, director of the Center for Indigenous Research, Science and Technology (C-FIRST) at IPSR. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1504203&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Understanding Gender Differences in STEM Academic Careers Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2015 - 2018 Project Summary: Donna Ginther, Professor of Economics, along with Shulamit Kahn, Associate Professor in the Boston University School of Management, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, "Understanding Gender Differences in STEM Academic Careers." Using data from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), Ginther and Kahn will examine issues confronting female academic career progression in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The research will evaluate longitudinal data on the scientific workforce, recently matched with the scientific outcomes of researchers' publications and patents, in order to determine how productivity contributes to the gender gap in science. Ginther directs the Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy at IPSR. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1538797&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Collaborative Research: Integrated City Sustainability: Administrative Apparatus for Overcoming Collective Dilemmas of Agency Fragmentation Principal Investigator: Rachel Krause Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2015 - 2018 Project Summary: Dr. Rachel Krause, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affaris and Administration and IPSR affiliate, is a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science of Organizations (SoO) grant that will fund a two-year study examining how sustainability efforts are being administered in U.S. cities. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1461526&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Trafficking/Terrorism Nexus in Eurasia Principal Investigator: Mariya Omelicheva Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research Period: 2015 - 2018 Project Summary: As organized crime plays an increasing role in funding terrorism, research at the University of Kansas aims to pinpoint hotspots in Eurasia where drug trafficking, human trafficking and terrorism coincide. Selected to receive a $953,500 Minerva grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Minerva Research Initiative, Mariya Omelicheva, the study's principal investigator, along with KU geography professor Stephen Egbert and Rowan University political science associate professor Lawrence Markowitz, will examine the connections between terrorism and organized crime in Central Asia, South Caucasus and Russia. The three-year project also will look at the conditions under which terrorist-trafficking alliances are forged and changed and the ability for governments and international organizations to monitor, prevent and dismantle the terrorist and criminal activity. Read more in the press release below. http://minerva.defense.gov/Research/Funded-Projects/Article/1092196/traffickingterrorism-nexus-in-eurasia/ |
| The African Charismatic Revolution: Pentecostal Authority and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana Principal Investigator: Ebenezer Obadare Funding Agency: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Period: 2015 - 2018 Project Summary: Ebenezer Obadare, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently received an award from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to support his project, "The African Charismatic Revolution: Pentecostal Authority and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana." Obadare's work will examine the idea of authority, as it is exercised, recognized, challenged, and validated among Christian Pentecostal communities in Africa. The research will be conducted in Nigeria and Ghana, the sub-regional loci of the Pentecostal resurgence in contemporary West Africa. In both countries, a cohort of charismatic religious leaders exercises an increasing sway over theological, personal, economic, and political matters. These leaders also circulate freely between both countries, galvanizing a spiritual economy in which devotional principles, modalities, and styles of authority are freely exchanged. The ebullient and 'sensational' aspects of contemporary Pentecostalism, a phenomenon partly driven by the personal magnetism of religious leaders, are ascendant in Nigeria and Ghana, making this study timely and imperative.  |
| Evaluation of the NIH SEPA T-Score Project Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute Period: 2015 - 2021 Project Summary: |
| Mapping Financial Opportunity Principal Investigator: Terri Friedline Funding Agency: MetLife Foundation Period: 2015 - 2017 Project Summary: Having banks and credit unions available in one's community can make a difference in a family's financial health, according to new studies from University of Kansas and Michigan researchers. The influence is greatest on lower-income households. Terri Friedline, assistant professor of social welfare and director of financial inclusion in the Center on Assets, Education and Inclusion in the School of Social Welfare, has published several reports on the center's website as part of the Mapping Financial Opportunity project. The project is building an interactive map using GIS software to show the availability of a range of financial services by ZIP code. Among the early findings, Friedline and project co-director Mathieu Despard of the University of Michigan report that every additional bank or credit union branch per 1,000 population is associated with a 5 percent higher probability that lower-income households will be able to pay their monthly bills and a 2 percent lower probability for every alternative financial services provider such as a payday lender. https://news.ku.edu/2016/04/08/social-welfare-professor-wins-grant-build-interactive-map-financial-opportunity |
| Systematic Study of Group-Based Legal Mobilization Principal Investigator: Charles R. Epp Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2015 - 2017 Project Summary: Charles Epp, Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, was awarded $210,999 by the National Science Foundation to study how a major litigation campaign is planned and carried out over time. The project, "Systematic Study of Group-Based Legal Mobilization," will examine how campaign organizers decide what to claim, when, and where along with how these decisions interact with official decisions and grassroots mobilization to shape the campaign's path over time. Litigation campaigns shape public discussion and public policy on topics from hot-button social issues to matters of regulatory policy. Previous studies have focused on key court cases or how legal claims influence grassroots mobilization. This study will include every formal claim made by a campaign in every forum, and will examine how the success of these varying claims in different forums shapes the course of the campaign over time. The study has broad implications for understanding law's contribution to, and limits on, public policy. The campaign under study is an effort by environmental groups since 2003 to block construction of coal-fired power plants nationwide. https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535673&HistoricalAwards=false |
| Connecting Population Health Scientists across Disciplines: Generating Evidence, Informing Research Translation and Fostering a Culture of Health Principal Investigator: Dorothy Marie Daley Funding Agency: Pennsylvania State University Period: 2015 - 2017 Project Summary: Dr. Dorothy Daley, an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas and Dr. Michelle Frisco, Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State have received a three-year $750,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The grant, "Connecting Population Health Scientists across Disciplines: Generating Evidence, Informing Research Translation and Fostering a Culture of Health" will be used to develop three conferences that will highlight cutting edgepopulation health research and foster the development of a much needed interdisciplinary professional space for population health scientists to convene, collaborate and share knowledge. Forums that generate and improve population health science help ensure that a high quality evidence base underpins the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's new major initiative, advancing a Culture of Health in the US. http://kupa.ku.edu/dorothy-daley-receives-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-award |
| Collaborative Research: Climate Risk Governance and Polycentrism in the US States Principal Investigator: Dorothy Marie Daley Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2014 - 2018 Project Summary: Dorthy Daley, IPSR affiliate and Associate Professor of Pubic Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, has received funding from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study on state and local climate risk governance. This project brings together a team of researchers and practitioners to better understand what type of climate governance results in improved environmental performance. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1431082&HistoricalAwards=false |
| A Proposal to Support Graduate Student Attendance at the University of Houston EITM Summer Training Institute Principal Investigator: Gail Buttorff Funding Agency: University of Houston Period: 2014 - 2017 Project Summary: |
| Collaboratively Harnessing Indigenous Research Principles, Protocols, and Practices (CHIRP3) Principal Investigator: Renee Pualani Louis Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2014 - 2017 Project Summary: Renee Louis, Research Associate at the University of Kansas Institute for Policy & Social Research, was awarded $299,920 from the Arctic Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation for her project, "Collaboratively Harnessing Indigenous Research Principles, Protocols and Practices (CHIRP3)." Her two-year project will examine and reimagine how scientists engage with Indigenous people in the United States. For this project, she is partnering with Elizabeth Medicine Crow and Kyle Wark at the First Alaskans Institute in Anchorage, Alaska and collaborating with Haskell Indian Nations University and the Edith Kanaka'ole Foundation. The KU Co-Investigator on the project is Jay Johnson, director of the Indigenous Geographies Research Center at KU. She and her team will evaluate current Native scientific practices and provide Native communities with information so they can take define their own scientific paradigms. She also plans to provide guidance to federal research funding agencies on how they incorporate Native science principles, protocols and practices, advancing both Native and Western science by bridging gaps in understanding. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1436506&HistoricalAwards=false |
| An Evaluation of Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility in Medical Schools Principal Investigator: Donna K. Ginther Funding Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Period: 2012 - 2017 Project Summary: |