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Developmental Research Projects

Each year CUPC awards approximately $50,000 in Developmental Grants, including Pilot Research Grants for amounts between $3,000 and $15,000 (call for Pilot CUPC proposals) and Rapid Response Small Grants (call for Small CUPC grants) that are limited to $3,000. Last year (2010-2011) the CU Population Center (CUPC) funded thirteen developmental grants, totaling approximately $68,000.

2010-2011 Pilot Projects

  • J. Terrence McCabe, Anthropology, "Livelihood diversification, migration and land use among Maasai pastoralists of Tanzania"
  • Tim Wadsworth, Sociology, "The Influence of Context on Subjective Well-Being
  • Fred Pampel, Sociology, "Widening Disparities in Tobacco Use over the Early Life Course"
  • Jill Williams, IBS African Population Studies Program, "Temporary Female Labor Migration and HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa"
  • Liam Downey, Sociology, Industrial Air Pollutants, Environmental Inequality, and Racial Disparities in Health

2010-2011 Rapid Response Proposals

  • Jason Boardman, Sociology, "Social Demography of Trauma and Head Injury"
  • Stefanie Mollborn, Sociology, "Examining Change in Health Measures and Pregnancy Intentions Using Add Health's Repeated Fertility History Data"
  • Fernando Riosmena, Geography, Trends in Origin-Destination Flows in Mexico - US Migration"
  • Tania Barham, Economics, Thirty-Five Years Later: Evaluating Effects of a Quasi-Random Child Health and Family Planning Program in Bangladesh on Cognitive Functioning"
  • Lori Hunter, Sociology, "The Environmental Dimensions of International Migration from Rural Mexico: Supplementing ongoing quantitative modeling with qualitative interviews"
  • Mara Goldman, Geography, "Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought: new trends and emerging patters among East African Pastoralists
  • Elisabeth Root, Geography, "Socioeconomic conditions, vaccination rates and the decline of cholera in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1983-2007"
  • Jason Boardman, Sociology, "Genome Wide Analysis for BMI"

Previous Grants