Research and Conference Grants

2001-2005 Co-PI NICHD “Predicting and Preventing Neglect In Teen Mothers”
University of Notre Dame (PI : Dr. John Borkowski) (multi-site study, 5 year) approx 6 million dollars
NICHD Team Members:
University of Alabama
PI’s Sharon and Craig Ramey
Consultant: Lorraine Klerman
Link: Website (requires Internet Explorer)

University of Kansas (Juniper Gardens Children’s Project)
PI (s): Steve Warren
Judy Carta
Georgetown University
PI:Bette Keltner

2000 Equipment and Restoration Grant $43,950 University of Notre Dame Graduate Research Grant

1998 Henkels Scholars Conference Grant, Institute for Scholarship Arts and Letters $22,000
Back to the Future Breast Feeding, Parental Contact and Proximity Promoting Infant Health. University of Notre Dame, September 28, 1998.

1998 Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research $4500
Organized Evolutionary Medicine Symposium for the Human Biology Association Annual Meetings, 1997.

1991-1996 National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, (Co-PI) "Infant
Parent Co-Sleeping: Implications for SIDS" ($955,000) with Dr. Sarah Mosko.

1990 National Institutes of Health (Shannon Award, 1000, 000). (Co-PI) "Infant-Parent Co-Sleeping: Implications for SIDS."

1989-90 Ford Foundation Grant 10,000$ Breathing Patterns and SIDS.

1988 Sloan Foundation SIDS Research Grant $ 6,000 $ (Cultural Ideology nad SIDS Research).

1988 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 10,000 Cosleping and SIDS.

1987 Sloan Foundation Medical Technology Grant $6000.

1986 Sloan Foundation Mathematical Modeling of SIDS $5,000 (with Dr. Rick Elderkin).

1986 Mellon Discrete Mathematics Project (modeling the breathing patterns of co-sleeping mother-infant dyads) withDr. Richard Elderkin, Ph.D. $12,000.

1986 Critical Studies in Science and Technolog$y ($6000).

1983 Haynes Foundation Summer Research Grant: Female Dominance Hierarchies Among Nonhuman Primates $4500.00.

1981 Irvine Foundation Summer Research Grant: "Sociobiology and Economics: What is the Connection?" $5000.

1980 Haynes Foundation Summer Research Grant: Alloparenting among Indian Langur Monkeys $7000.

1979 Mellon Faculty Development Grant (Biosocial Basis of Huamn Sex Differences).

1978 National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant, Psychobiology and Mental Illness Summer Institute, U .C. Irvine. Neurobiology and Neurophysiology.

1974 University of Oregon, Bio-Medical Grant #50-262-ll02, Partial Disseretation Research Support.

1972-74 University of Oregon Teaching Fellowship.

1970-72 Graduate Student Teaching Assistantship, San Diego State University.

1970 United States House of Representatives Student Intern Fellowship (summer). Worked for Congressman Jerome Waldie, 7th District.