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Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program

November 24, 2014

This e-mail is to notify the research community of the recently released Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) funding opportunity being managed by the office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) on behalf of the Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program (CRMRP) and Joint Program Committee 8

Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program

Neurosensory and Rehabilitation Research Award

(Food for Thought Books/Flickr)

Public Engagement Project uses UMass Research to Promote Social Change

November 20, 2014

(Initially reported by The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, posted by Cecilia Prado on Wednesday, November 19, 2014) 

The University of Massachusetts will be launching the Public Engagement Project, a new fellowship program intended to provide faculty members with resources to use their research to create social change.

Naomi Gerstel’s (ISSR Scholar and Scholar's Facilitator for 2014-15) new book, “Unequal Time” continues to get lots of well-deserved media attention.

November 6, 2014

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/15/unequal_time_a_new_book_looks_at_work_life_balance_for_health_care_workers.html -- Slate's (XX Blog)

http://wbur.fm/ZCEntm -- WBUR (Cognoscenti) radio article

http://bit.ly/1xy72LK -- the American Prospect

SAVE THE DATE | New Worlds of Adoption: Launching into Adulthood | April 17, 2015

October 17, 2014

LAunching into Adultihood Event Poster with Date and Location

Event Date: 
April 17, 2015
Event Time: 
8:00 am- 5:00 pm
Location: 
Campus Center Auditorium

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ann Masten, Ph.D., Regents Professor and Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, will highlight research on resilience in development with a focus on transitions to adulthood. In her keynote address, “Ordinary Magic on the Developmental Road to Resilience,” adoption will be discussed in terms of strengths that promote resilience. Joining Dr. Masten will be three adult adoptees who are now in significant professional positions serving the adoption community:  

Scholars in the News - ISSR Scholar Michelle Budig, of Sociology, on "The Motherhood Wage Penalty"

September 10, 2014

""ISSR is pleased to announce that the research of Michelle Budig (Research Scholar 2012-2013) was recently highlighted in a New York Times article about her study on the motherhood wage penalty and the fatherhood wage bonus demonstrating that generally women make less money with each child they have while men’s earnings are likely to rise with marriage and children.

For the full NY Times article click here.

Other feature articles: Bustle, Dish

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Go to Six UMass Social Scientists

April 16, 2014

This year the UMass campus boasts ten current graduate students who received the prestigious and competitive National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF), six of whom are in the social sciences.

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