Project Title: Investigation of Bioactive Components of Human Milk to Protect and Promote Breastfeeding and Infant Health
While the nutrition and immunity aspects of human milk are well recognized, recent scientific advances have identified millions of cells and...
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Project Title: Engaging Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Use of Complementary and Integrative Healthcare (CIH) as an Alternative to Opioids
Complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies (e.g., meditation, yoga, acupuncture, others) offer a non-...
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Project Title: Family & Community Engagement Among College Students of Color in STEM
While family is deemed to play a critical role in STEM access and success for students in K-12 education, there is limited literature on family engagement in college. Building...
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Project Title: From Inter-Annotator Agreement to Explained Variation: Content Analytic Coding That Allows Interpretive Flexibility
Project Title: Financialization and the Pharmaceutical Crisis
Project Title: Masculinity, Balance, and Compensation: A New Theory of Gender Performance
Professor Young's theoretical work has extended theories of gender that identify "masculine overcompensation," recognizing "masculine undercompensation" as a strategy for...
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Social interactions are dynamic processes that depend on the individuals involved (for example: parent or child) and often differ between individual animals. Social behaviors are often sexually dimorphic and...
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Global issues tend to be governed in isolation from one another. Yet we know that many issues are interconnected, and that their effective and sustainable governance requires attention to externalities experienced elsewhere in...
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Strategies are needed to decrease the negative effects of interruptions in the healthcare workplace. In this proposal, we seek to evaluate a training program for managing...
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We need a broader context to understand the evolution of the human microbiome (i.e. the bacteria and other micro-organisms found on and in the body), especially with regard to the effects of...
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Because speech sounds nearly always occur in the context of other speech sounds, each one's acoustics and perception varies as function of what speech sounds occur next to it. The size of the perceptual effects of neighboring speech sounds on that...
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Naomi Gerstel is Distinguished University Professor and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. With Dr. Mary Fechner (Office of Research and Development), Gerstel serves as Mentor to the ISSR Scholars. Gerstel’s research and courses focus on family, carework, job...
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Mary Fechner is the Proposal Development Specialist for the Office of Research Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Fechner also co-facilitates the ISSR Scholars program, togteher with Dr. Naomi Gerstel (Sociology). She supports faculty in proposal development and...
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