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  • CRF Director Lorraine Cordeiro one of five UMass faculty to receive Manning Prize for teaching excellence. Read the announcement HERE

  • MEET THE STUDENTS AND LEARN ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH HERE

  • The Center for Research on Families is pleased to introduce the 2022-23 Family Research Scholars.

     

    Meet the newest cohort of scholars and learn more about their research HERE

  • CRF's year in review

    2020-21 Annual Report

    Browse the electronic version here

  • Learn about their research here

  • CRF stands against racism and injustice

     

    Read CRF's Statement Here

  • Need help with power analysis?  CRF Offers Methodology Consulting for all stages of research!

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  • CRF's Family Research

    Scholars in the News

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Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, FRS 2017-18 and Associate Professor, Selected for the 2022 Distinguished Community Engagement Award

Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, FRS 2017-18 and Associate Professor in the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, is one of two faculty members selected for the 2022 Distinguished Community Engagement Award. The award, presented by the Provost's Office, comes with a $1,000 monetary prize and has been given annually for more than two decades. According to the call for nominations, “This award recognizes individuals within our campus community for their outstanding contributions to community-engaged scholarship and teaching, and campus/community partnerships, with impacts at the local, regional, national or international level.” Learn more about Dr. Poudel-Tandukar's research and the award here.

Adam Grabell, FRS 2019-20, Awarded Seed Funding from the University's Technology Development Fund

Adam Grabell, FRS 2019-20 and assistant professor of Psychological and Brain Science is a recent recipient of a $25,000 Technology Development award from the Technology Development Fund. The funds were awarded to support work in Dr. Grabell's lab, The SEED Lab, which created a lab-based game and algorithm that detects the presence of psychological disorders in preschool children called EarlyScreen.  The tool performed with a high degree of accuracy when detecting emerging signs of psychological disorders. Learn more about the award and their awardees here.

Grant Funding Success

A Daily Self-Regulation Intervention for Persons Alzheimer’s Disease and their Spouses
$12,188
Effect of Visualization on Students’ Learning Module
$300,000
Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms Via a Family-centered Preventative Intervention fo
$732,144
Paternal Reproductive Health
$2,710,962

Total Funded: $28,171,693


View all current & past grants.

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