Prevention Insights at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington will oversee the evidence-based research on a $250,000 grant Claude McNeal Productions has received from the Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will support the work necessary for ACT Out!, a live social-issues theatre troupe, to become evidence-based in social/emotional learning.
Grants and Funding
Dr. Chusyd awarded grant to develop facial recognition software for elephants
Dr. Daniella Chusyd from the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington has been awarded a one-year $15,000 grant from Microsoft AI for Earth for the use of its Azure software.
Prevention Insights partners with Fayette County family services program to address opioid overdoses
Prevention Insights will work with agencies in the rural Indiana county of Fayette to plan the groundwork for improved access to opioid-related prevention services. The project will focus on reducing morbidity and mortality associated with opioid overdoses by improving the county’s prevention infrastructure and available services.
Dr. Rosenberg and Dr. Ludema garner equipment funding for research to improve campus sexual health and safety
An equipment proposal from Dr. Molly Rosenberg and Dr. Christina Ludema entitled “Developing an IU-based research program to improve campus sexual health and safety with wearable alcohol monitors” has been selected by the Office of the Provost for Research (OVPR) for funding.
Prevention Insights partners with Franciscan Alliance to improve opioid addiction treatment
Public health researchers at Indiana University have partnered with Franciscan Alliance to improve opioid addiction treatment at hospitals in Marion and Lake counties. Experts at Prevention Insights, an addiction research center based at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, will work with clinicians and administrators at Franciscan Alliance to support, expand and evaluate Franciscan’s use… Read more »
Dr. Chusyd selected to receive CTSI Postdoc Challenge award
Dr. Daniella Chusyd from the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington has been selected to receive a 2018-2019 Postdoc Challenge award from the Indiana Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). Her project is titled “Early life trauma and biological aging in a long-lived animal model” and focuses on the relationship between early life adversity and longevity using… Read more »
Dr. Beeker awarded grant to study J.D. Marshall shipwreck
Dr. Charles D. Beeker, director of the Center for Underwater Science and Academic Diving Program at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been awarded a NOAA and Indiana DNR grant for $15,568 to work on the Great Lakes shipwreck J.D. Marshall.
IU School of Public Health-Bloomington awarded Sloan Foundation Grant
The IU School of Public Health-Bloomington has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a workshop and yearlong process titled Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency (RRT) at the Interdisciplinary Interface. The application was prepared by Dean David Allison, Justin Otten, and Andrew Brown from within the SPH and includes multiple IU Bloomington collaborators… Read more »
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant to help Mental Health First Aid training in Monroe County
Heather Dolne, a Research Associate at the Indiana Prevention Resource Center with the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, has received a 3-year, $375,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This project will focus on increasing the capacity for, and awareness of, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training to better serve… Read more »
IU SPH researcher-entrepreneur receives $245,000 STTR grant for startup
A high-tech startup founded by an Indiana University researcher-entrepreneur has been awarded a federal grant to develop technology that aims to reduce the use of animals in chemical toxicity studies of food, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and other products. Dream Tech LLC has received a one-year STTR Phase I award worth $245,130 from the National Center for Advancing… Read more »