Center for Advanced Studies
Spelman Rockefeller (CASSPR)
Grants for Research on Children and their Families

Amy C. Butler, Social Work: Families with Children Headed by Same-Sex Couples: Trends Over time, Effect of Public Policy, and Well-being of Children
John P. Lawrence, Surgery: The Role of Toll-like Receptors and C-type Lectins in Visceral Leishmaniasis Infections
John Northrup, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations: Innovative Behavior Therapy for Young Children with a Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Brad Van Voorhis, Obstetrics & Gynecology: Helping Build Families—One Healthy Baby at a Time

Huston Diehl, English: ‘Dream Not of Other Worlds’: Teaching in a Segregated School, Louisa, VA 1970
Jennifer Glass, Sociology: Do Work-Family Policies Stem Labor Force Instability Among Mothers of Young Children?
James A. Hall, Pediatrics: Development of Services for Homeless Youth in Eastern Iowa: An Assessment of Needs and Strengths
Christine Odell and Jody Murph, Pediatrics: Can the Spread of Pertussis be Stopped in Iowa?

Erika Lawrence, Psychology: Understanding the Mechanisms that Influence the Developmental Course of Family Violence: Using Basic Research to Craft Effective Interventions Targeting Physical Aggression, Family Systems Adjustment and Individual Adjustment
Irwin P. Levin, Psychology: Development of Tasks for Studying Decision Biases in Children
Kathleen M. Tangenberg, Social Work: Children of Mothers with Chronic Pain: Family Relationships and Community Supports
Beth Troutman, Psychiatry: Effect of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) During Pregnancy on Infant Emotional Development

Kelly J. Clifton, Urban and Regional Planning: Activity Demands of Teenagers and Their Effect on Household Travel Demand
Michele J. Eliason and Janette Taylor, Nursing: The Effects of Mother’s Incarceration on Her Children
Diane L. Huber, Nursing: Clinical Needs of Adolescents with Conduct Disorder Who are in Treatment for Chemical Dependency
Ann Marie McCarthy, Nursing, Daniel Clay, Education, Michael W. Kelly and
Karen Farris, Pharmacy: Medication Administration in the School Setting: Perceptions of Families

Elena V. Gavruseva, Linguistics: Acquisition of Inflection and Representation of Events in Child Grammars
Kathleen F. Janz, Sport, Health, Leisure, and Physical Studies; Steven M. Levy, Preventive and Community Dentistry; and Trudy L. Burns, Biostatistics: Validating the CSA Accelerometer for Measuring Physical Activity Intensity in Young Children
Patricia Kelley, Social Work; Lou Blankenberg, United Action for Youth; and Judith McRoberts, National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice: Girls Fighting Trouble: Re/Storying Young Lives
Rita Noonan, Sociology: Domestic Violence and Children’s Health: What Helps? What Hurts?”
Elizabeth Heineman, History: Mixed Children in the Postwar Germanys