Congratulations to U-TuRN’s Year 1 Mini Grants Recipients!
05.01.18

In Year 1, U-TuRN facilitated translational scholarship at ISU by funding 6 research projects, totaling $30,000 in awards. Congratulations to our Year 1 mini grants recipients:

Ben Shirtcliff, Laura Ellingson, Jacob Meyer, Rosie Manzo, and Jeni Lansing: “Ground Truthing” Environmental Barriers to Human Well-Being: Translational Outreach and Engagement Research using a Multi-State, Multi-City Approach for Iowa’s Diversifying Small Towns

Donna Winham and Molly Hiller: Relationships of Acculturation, Food Security, and Gender among Latino, African, and Asian Immigrants in Central Iowa

Constance Beecher, Lesia Oesterreich and Craig VanPay: Assessment of Rural Early Childhood Care Landscape and Quality

Linda Shenk, Kristie Franz, and Laura Merrick: Using Citizen Science & Agent-Based Modeling to Foster Coalition Building in an Urban-Rural Watershed: The Tedesco Environmental Learning Corridor

Sandra Burke: Health Data Literacy for Communities: Program Development, Education, and Informed Communities

Monica Haddad, Caroline Westort, and Cristina Poleacovschi: Towards Healthy Cities: Introducing a Socio-spatial Integrative Framework for Obesity