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Researching the Connected World: An Introduction to Social Network Analysis
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
Modeling Diary Data with HLM
The High Price of Caring: You Can't Count it!
“The Dynamics of Information Processing in Infants: Eye-tracking and Neuroimaging”
"Workplace Flexibility For Low-Wage Workers: Benefits For Employees and Employers
"Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity in Childhood"
“Rethinking Immigration and the Family in the Age of Global Vertigo”
"The Self-Regulation of Health Behavivors: The Environmental Affordances Framework"
"Religion, Spirituality and Health: Are they related and What does it mean?"
"Resilience: More than a Metaphor"
"Fitness & Cognitive Training: Influence on Cognition and Brain Structure/Function"
"Early education, parenting education, and parent involvement: what works and what doesn't"
"Failure to Launch? Delayed Departure from the Family Home in Western Europe and Japan"
"Responsive Parenting: what is it and When is it Most Important?
Destinies of the Disadvantaged: Teenage Childbearing and Public Policy
"The long arm of the job: Implications for families"
"The flutter of a butterfly and the ripple in the water: Addressing health disparities through community based collaborative action research"
The Neighborhood Ecology of Family Influence on Delinquency and Violence
Motherhood, Not Marriage
Participatory Action Research: Creating Space for Co-constructed Knowledge
RESEARCHING THE CONNECTED WORLD: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELS I
CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS USING STATA: Models for Binary, Ordinal, Nominal, and Count Outcomes
MODELING DIARY DATA WITH HLM
INTRO. TO ATLAS.ti and CAT for QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELS I
MODELING DIARY AND DYADIC DATA
ANALYZING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
RESEARCHING THE CONNECTED WORLD : An Introduction to Social Network Analysis
RESEARCHING THE CONNECTED WORLD : An Introduction to Social Network Analysis
ANALYZING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELS I
MODELING DIARY AND DYADIC DATA
ANALYZING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELS I
MODELING LONGITUDINAL AND DYADIC DATA WITH HLM
WHAT TO DO ABOUT MISSING DATA: TOOLS FOR PRACTITIONERS
ANALYZING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELS I
New Methods for the Analysis of Family and Dyadic Processes
“Journeys to the Alter: The Intimate Union Pattern of Low Income Urban and Rural Mothers”
"Women and Work: Choices and Constraints" - Conference
“Mad Men”, “Working Girls” & Depressed Housewives: The 1960’s & The Feminine Mystique
"Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation: The Imperative For A "Family-Clinician Team"
"Making Sense of the Role of Culture in Child Well-Being and Child Maltreatment"
"Sleep in Aging and Dementia"
"Resiliency In The Face of Adversity: The Role Of Stressor Controllability And The Medial Prefrontal Cortex"
"The Causes and Consequences of Food Insecurity among Refugees Resettled in the USA"
In the Heat of the Moment: Staying on Message Amidst Controversy
"Early Environments, Stress, and the Eco-logics of Inflammation"
“Inflammation and Its Discontents: The Role of the Immune System in the Pathophysiology of Depression”
Student Travel Award Deadline
“New Worlds of Adoption: Navigating the Teen Years”
I am a PI: Now What?
Research Methods for Social Justice
How to Make Friends and Influence Policy: Working with State and Federal Policymakers
Working with Social Movements: Lessons from the Front Lines
The 2008 Presidential Election: a forum
Writing Op-Eds and Getting Them Placed
Taking Research on Families Outside of the Academy: How to Craft Effective Media Messages
"Studying Stories That Can Change Policy"
"Smart Policy: Using the Science of Early Brain Development to Inform Child Welfare System Programs and Practice"
"Can College Procedures Be More Family-Friendly?"
Family Research Scholars 2012-2013 Application Deadline
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Grants and Awards Deadline
The Self-Regulation of Health Behaviors: The Environmental Affordances Framework
Destinies of the Disadvantaged: Teenage Childbearing and Public Policy
NIH: Funding for the Social Sciences
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
New England Workshop on Social Network Analysis
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data
I'm a PI, Now What? Workshop
"School Discipline and School Climate: Is SEL or SWPBS the Best Approach?"
"Integrating Social-Emotional and Character Development into the Mission of All Schools: No Alibis. No Excuses. No Exceptions."
"The Development of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: Experiential Canalization of Brain and Behavior"
Transforming Threads of Resistance: Political Arpilleras & Textiles by Women from Chile and Around the World
I'm a PI, Now What? Workshop - Budgets
Colloquium: A Call to Public Sociology: Inspiration and Insights from Sociological Images
Isolating Study & Community-Level Patterns Using Meta-Analytic Techniques: How Stigma Relates to HIV Prevention Interventions for African Americans
How does sleep (or lack of it) impact your life?
WILL I EVER PUBLISH AGAIN??..AND OTHER CHALLENGES FOR PIs
“Analyzing Incomplete Multilevel Data with HLM”
The Honorable Madeleine Kunin to Speak about Next Phase of Women’s Progress
Mayor Alex Morse
Family Policies, Employment and Poverty among Partnered and Single Mothers Cross-Nationally
Theory from the South
New Worlds of Adoption: Contact Between Adoptive & Birth Families: What Works?
Divine Detection
“Standardization and conformity: A Critique of New Zealand’s Early Childhood Neoliberal Politics”
Learning how to communicate ideas effectively to people who aren’t in your own field.
"Building a Network that Extends into the Worlds you Hope to Influence"
Family Research Forum & Awards Dinner - Invite Only
"Dietary Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors for Cancer Prevention"
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories, Social Network Analysis, Managing Work Flow, and Diary Methods will be offered this June 2013.
"Can Meanings be Modeled? Exploring a Neural Networks Model of Culture"
"Racism and Health: Findings, Questions and Directions"
Drowning in Data? The Workflow of Data Analysis
"Migrant Day Laborers, Neoliberalism, and the Struggle for Time"
CANCELLED - "The Role of Parents in Supporting Their Children's Achievements"
"Influences of Childhood Adversity on Health in Midlife: First Findings of a Longitudinal Study"
“STEMing the Tide: How Female Experts and Peers Act as "Social Vaccines" for Girls and Women in STEM”
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data
The Workflow of Data Analysis using Stata
The UMass Public Engagement Project Presents "The Engaged Campus: Giving Back to the Commonwealth and Beyond"
Graphing Multilevel Models in Excel
ISI presents: The Challenges of Engagement: Public Scholarship in the Interdisciplinary Arena

Gallery

Adoption Conference - Spring 11"
Family Research Scholars 2010-11"
Student Award Lunchen - Spring 11"
Jill Korbin Lecture - Fall 11"
Thomas McDade Lecture - Fall 11"
Andrew Miller Lecture - Fall 11"
CRF Research Dinner - Fall 11"
Methods Workshop - Summer 2011
Methods Workshop - Summer 2012
Rudd Adoption Conference 2012
Student Award Lunchen - Spring 2012
Family Research Scholars 2011-2012
Family Research Scholars 2012-2013

Grants

National Science Foundation
Creative Economy Initiatives Fund
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
National Cancer Institute in the National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
United States Army Research Institute for the Behavior & Social Science
National Science Foundation: Career Award
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Subcontract
National Institutes of Health: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (U13
American Heart Association - National Program
National Cancer Institute in the National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Ford Foundation
National Science Foundation
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
Political Economy Research Institute
Labor Relations and Research Center
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
National Council for Eurasia and Eastern Europe
IREX
Humboldt Award
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Woodrow Wilson Center
Ian Axford Fellowship
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Science Foundation
Wenner-Gren International Collaborative Research Grant
National Science Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- Applications for Nurse Faculty Scholars
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
Institute of Education Sciences
Spencer Foundation
US Department of Defense
The Mary Kay Foundatio
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation

News

NINA SIULC, CRF Scholar selected by the Migration Policy Institute
STEPHANIE COONTZ - Author, social historian and feminist
Rebecca Spencer’s New Sleep Research Receives Widespread Interest
Lisa Scott Receives $674,589 NSF CAREER Grant to Study How Infants Form Bias
Rebecca Ready’s Research Aims to Improve Quality of Life for Alzheimer’s Patients
Methodologist Aline Sayer to Consult on $2.7M Federal Grant Targeting Student Success
Family Studies Pioneer Naomi Gerstel Appointed Distinguished Professor
Amy Schalet discusses her book: "Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex"
Sociology Professor Michelle Budig and Graduate Student Melissa Hodges Receive Reuben Hill Award
Bushouse Receives ARNOVA’s Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize
Gerstel Releases Fact Sheet for Unmarried and Singles Week
Dr. Jill Korbin Initiates '11-'12 Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series
Psychology Students Team Up with Operation Military Kids in New Course
CRF Honors Student Grant Winners at Annual Awards Dinner
CRF Hosts Second Annual Research Forum and Awards Dinner
New Principal Investigators Take on Grant Challenges
Rudd Adoption Research Program and Big Brothers, Big Sisters Partnership Featured
Rudd Chair Hal Grotevant quoted in The New England Psychologist
Family Research Scholar ‘11-‘12 Sara Whitcomb's Dissertation to be Published
Article authored by former Family Research Scholar Naomi Gerstel referenced in The Atlantic
McDade Lectures on Early-Childhoods, Stress, and Inflammation in Second Tay Gavin Erickson Event
CRF In The News - October
Public Engagement Project Co-founder Amy Schalet Releases New Book
Methodology Consulting Services Welcomes New Team Member
Third Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Features Dr. Andrew Miller Discussing the Link Between Inflammation and Depression
Budget Workshop is the Next Step for New PI Program
CRF Scholar Rebecca Spencer and Graduate Student Laura Kurdzeil Present Latest Findings on Sleep Study
CRF Funds Five Graduate Students with Fall Travel Awards
CRF In The News - November
New PI Workshop Addresses Leadership and Building a Research Team
Former CRF Scholar Choe Receives Grant from American Heart Association for Treatment of Stroke Survivors
Past CRF Scholar Folbre Uses Social Media to Blend Economics and Family Research
Current CRF Scholar Bernal Receives Grant to Study Radical Populism and Presidential Constitutionalism
CRF In The News - December
CRF Scholar Rebecca Spencer Publishes New Study That Finds Sleep Preserves and Enhances Unpleasant Emotional Memories
CRF Director Powers to Facilitate Institute of Medicine Workshop
CRF In The News - January
CRF Expands Methodology Consulting Services
Undergraduate Amanda Otto Plays Key Role in Family Research Study: Examines Connection between Post Partum and Menopausal Hot Flashes
CRF Conference Inspires New Collection of Essays about Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance
CRF Family Research Scholars Featured in UMass Report on Research
New Principal Investigators Take on Grant Challenges
Are State-Run Youth Organizations Redefining State Power and Citizenship in Russia? Post-socialist Russia expert and Family Research Scholar, Julie Hemment, completes NSF Grant.
Stress Research Group's Jeffrey Blaustein to Deliver Distinguished Faculty Lecture
CRF Scholar Krause Launches New Project at Conference of Europeanists
Rudd Family Chair Hal Grotevant Interviewed on WGBY on the Psychology of Adoption
Badgett to Deliver Honors College Faculty Lecture on Individual Action and Change
Managing Your Grant Budget
CRF Announces 2012-2013 Family Research Scholars
Rudd Adoption Program Hosts Fourth Annual Adoption Conference
Kurland receives $1.75 million from NIH for grant developed as part of the Family Research Scholars Program
CRF Scholar Rebecca Spencer's Work Featured by the Huffington Post
Research of Two CRF Family Research Scholars Featured on Equal Pay Day
CRF Grants Over $70,000 to Students and Celebrates Work of Current Student Grant Recipients
CRF Scholar Lisa Scott’s New Study on Infant Perception Receives Widespread Attention
Seven Renowned Speakers visit UMA for Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series and Mentoring of Family Research Scholars
Julie Hemment (FRS '05-06) receives award from National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Methodology Workshops Sponsored by CRF - Analyzing Incomplete Multilevel Data with HLM
CRF Sponsors the New England Workshop on Social Network Analysis
CRF Hosts Analyzing Developmental Trajectories Workshop in collaboration with Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Five Colleges Childhood Studies Group (CSG) hosts series of residencies in the areas of children’s rights and the study of youth
CRF Hosts Hierarchical Linear Models 1 Workshop in collaboration with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
CRF Scholar and UMass Neuroscientist Dr. Heather Richardson Awarded Grant from NIH’s Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse
NSF Awards CRF Scholar and UMA anthropologist Elizabeth Krause for Research on Chinese Immigration and Family Encounters in Italy
CRF Hosts "Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data" Workshop presented by Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau (UDelaware) and Dr. Niall Bolger (Columbia)
Center for Research on Families Concludes 2012 Summer Methodology Workshop Series
CRF Scholar Rebecca Spencer Collaborates with Team of Researchers - Giving phobias a rest: Research suggests key role for sleep in treating anxiety, stress
CRF Scholar Rebecca Spencer Awarded Two NIH Grants – $4.5 Million to Research Sleep and Memory in both Young and Elderly
CRF Scholar Julie Hemment (’07–’08) Awarded Fellowship from National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)
CRF Scholar and UMA Anthropologist Elizabeth Krause Awarded Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Family Research Scholars from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Awarded Over $9.2 Million in Research Funds
Family Research Scholar Linda Tropp (’09-’10) featured in UMass Amherst Magazine - Summer 2012 Issue
Gerstel To Lead CRF's Public Engagement Activities
CRF Scholar Yu-kyong Choe’s Study Explores use of Robots to Aid Recovery from Stroke
CRF Scholar Heather Richardson studies adolescent binge drinking and brain development
CRF Scholar Rebecca Spencer’s Sleep Research Studies Value of Preschool Naps
CRF Scholar Buju Dasgupta gives invited presentation at White House roundtable
CRF Stress Research Group Answers the Question…Stressed?
CRF Welcomes New Member Heather Lavigne to Methodology Consulting Services Team
CRF Scholars in the News - September 2012
CRF Scholars Lorraine Cordeiro and Jerusha Nelson Peterman to Speak at the 7th Annual - Keys to Ending Homelessness Conference in Lowell
Center for Research on Families Awarded “GREEN” status in Campus Sustainability Initiative
CRF Travel Award Recipients (’11-’12) Reflect on their Family Research Experience – Networking & Learning Coast to Coast
UMass Amherst Sleep Research May Offer New Treatment Directions for Age-Related Memory Decline
The Pathway of Resilience for Northwest Alaskan Youth
CRF Announces 2012 Travel Awards to Young Family Researchers in Anthropology and Psychology
CRF Family Research Scholars - In The News
CRF Directors Present Family Research Scholars Program at 2012 Mentoring Conference
Now Accepting Applications to the Family Research Scholars Program
CRF Affiliate and Renowned Sociologist Naomi Gerstel’ Research Broadens Vision of Work, Family and Inequality
Looking Ahead in 2013
CRF Family Research Scholars - In The News (December & January)
CRF Scholars Lundquist and Misra Featured - New Research from UMass Amherst Sociologists Dispels Myths about Academic Parental Leave
Center for Research on Families hits sweet spot of success
First Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Features Dr. Emily Ho Discussing the Science and Nutrition Behind Cancer Prevention
CRF Scholar Krista Harper Participates in Barcelona Workshop
CRF Affiliate and Rudd Adoption Center Researcher Rachel Farr Receives Grant to Support Longitudinal Research on Adoption and Same-sex Couples
CRF Scholars In the News – February 2013
Bachrach Discusses New Cultural Model in Second Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture
CRF Scholar Harold Grotevant Profiled in The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring – Discusses Mentoring Adopted Youth
Dr. Scott Long Keeps Us From Drowning in Data Thanks To The Workflow of Data Analysis
CRF Scholar Yu-kyong Choe Reports Robot-Delivered Speech and Physical Therapy a Success in UMass Amherst Test
CRF Announces 6 New Scholars to its Family Research Scholars Program now in its 11th year at UMass Amherst
CRF Scholars In The News - March 2013
Dr. David Williams of Harvard University Delivers Inspiring Lecture about Racial Health Disparities
Dr. Judith Crowell of Stony Brook University Shares Early Findings from her Longitudinal Study
CRF Announces the 2013-2014 Student Award Recipients
Former CRF Scholar Lorraine Cordeiro Receives College Outstanding Teacher Award
Dr. Paul Apostolidis Combines Political Theory with the Reality Facing Migrant Day Laborers
Over 200 People gathered at the 5th Annual New Worlds of Adoption Conference Hosted by the Rudd Adoption Research Program
CRF Scholars In the News - April 2013
CRF Methodology Workshop Series June 2013

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