CRF News

Scholar News

Spring 09

Michelle Budig (06-07 Scholar) and Joya Misra (04-05 Scholar). A paper written by Michelle Budig and Joya Misra, associate professors of Sociology and CRF scholars, has been chosen the winner of the first World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award. The prize is for their paper, “How Care Work Shapes Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective,” published by the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), a cross-national data archive and research institute. Go to LINK.

Professor Harold D. Grotevant, the Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology and CRF Affiliate, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of his “sustained contributions to the advancement of psychological science.” Go to LINK.

2008

JuliAnna Smith, Aline Sayer and Jade Logan (CRF Methdology staff and graduate students) were panelists at the National Council on Family Relations conference in Nov. 2008. The Interdependence of Family Members: Approaches in Multilevel Modeling workshop provided several statistical models useful for the analysis of dyadic data including the longitudinal multivariate outcomes model for distinguishable dyads. For more information, accompanying handouts and datafiles click here.

Nancy Folbre (07-08 Scholar) was awarded a 2008 Creative Economies Initiative Fund -- a three campus project entitled "Taking Care: The Costs and Contributions of Care Work in Massachusetts".

Paula Pietromonaco (03-04 Scholar) was awarded a five year grant from the National Institutes of Health: "Biopsychosocial Factors in Depression and Marriage: Implications for Cancer."

Michelle J. Budig (06-07 Scholar) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation: "Family Policies and the Wage Penalty: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Approach."

Jennifer Hickes Lundquist (06-07 Scholar) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation: "Race and Infant Health OUtcomes in the U.S.Military."

Jennifer Foster (06-07 Scholar - now at Emory University) was awarded an NIH Community Participation grant for her research in the Dominican Republic.