Previously Announced Grants

  • Frank Bean (Sociology) is a co-recipient of a $1.34 million NICHD grant to compile a new dataset and conduct research on the health of immigrants living in the United States.
  • Candice Odgers (Psychology) was named a W.T. Grant Scholar, an honor which includes $350,000 over five years to study Macro-to-Micro Contextual Triggers of Early Adolescent Substance Exposure.
  • Cynthia Feliciano (Sociology) and Leticia Oseguera (Education) received a $484,000 from UC All Campus Consortium for Diversity (ACCORD) for Young Adults in Poverty and Not on Track to Attain a Post-secondary Credential: A National Portrait.
  • Andrew Penner (Sociology) received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to support his research on The Consequences of Racial Fluidity for Inequality in the United States.
  • Anne-Marie Conley (Education) is co-PI on two new NSF grants on youth outcomes examining motivation in math and science learning. A $1.9 million grant looks at the role of teachers’ motivation in promoting students’ motivation and achievement. The second $2 million project studies the influence of teachers on student achievement.
  • George Farkas (Education) received a $403,559 NICHD grant (2009-2001) for “Poverty, Low Birth Weight and Early Cognitive Delay: A Population-Based Approach” (with Marianne Hillemeier and Paul Morgan).
  • David Swanson (UCR Sociology) is co-investigator on Virtual Co-laboratory for Policy Analysis in Greater L.A., a $2.3 million (5 year) award from the UC Multicampus Research Program and Initiatives.
  • Ruben Rumbaut (Sociology) received a $100,000 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to write a book on ethnicity and inequality among immigrant populations in Southern California.
  • George Farkas, Margaret Burchinal, Greg Duncan, and Deborah Vandell (Education) were awarded $847,969 from the Institute of Education Sciences to study “Preschool Program Impacts on School Readiness: Variation by Prior Child Language and Attention Skills, and the Quality of Infant/Toddler Care” (2009-2011).
  • Judith Treas (Sociology) was awarded a $300,000 NSF research grant (2008-2011) as the American partner in EQUALITY, a multi-investigator European Science Foundation project, which will expand knowledge of the conditions that support equal and sustainable participation of men and women in societies.
  • John Hipp (Criminology) and Carter Butts (Sociology) received a $ 749,245 NSF grant (with Nicholas Nagle) on Large-scale Spatially Embedded Interpersonal Networks. (2008-11). 
  • Jennifer Lee (Sociology) was awarded a $108,000 Russell Sage Foundation research grant (with Min Zhou) to study the new second immigrant generation in L.A.
  • Frank Bean (Sociology) received a $840,000 Grant on Immigrant Estimation from the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Wang Feng (Sociology) received a $500,000 grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project that examines China's new demographic regime of below replacement and its social and economic implications. The project is a collaborative endeavor among scholars and policy makers in several institutions in the United States and in China.