Current Funded Projects
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#4Corners4Health: A Social Media Cancer Prevention Program for Rural Emerging Adults
The goal of this project is to improve cancer risk behavioral factors among diverse emerging adults aged 18-26 living in rural counties in the Four Corners states, – a unique, underserved region, – using a social media campaign designed with community advisors. This project brings together investigators at four NCI-funded Cancer Centers to develop and test the impacts of a social media-based intervention.
R01CA268037
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Buller/Sussman (PI)
09/15/22-09/14/27
Role: Co-Investigator, PI of subcontract to CSU
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Substance use among American Indian youth: Epidemiology and Etiology
The major goals of this project are to track substance use trends among American Indian adolescents and identify malleable risk and protective factors.
R01DA003371
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Stanley/Swaim/Prince (PI)
07/01/20-06/30/25
Role: Co-Investigator
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Life-course and intergenerational effects of criminal justice involvement: Identifying risks, the search for resilience, and the impact of the rise in opioid misuse and the Covid-19 pandemic The major goals of this project are to understand the role that involvement with the criminal justice system plays in life course development.
This study funds two rounds of new data collection for the focal participant from the Rochester Youth Development Study (G2) and the focal participant from the Rochester Intergenerational Study (G2’s first born child - G3).
2020-MU-MU-0017
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Augustyn (PI) 01/01/21-12/31/25
Role: Co-Investigator, PI of subcontract to CSU
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Northern Colorado Bridges to the Baccalaureate
The major goals of this project are to facilitate the successful transfer of community college students to a 4-year college (Front Range Community College to Colorado State University), and to provide opportunities for participation in undergraduate research. The program actively recruits students from under-represented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine – including first generation college students; Black, Latino/a, and Native students; and students who grew up in socio-economically disadvantaged households.
T34GM137861
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Laybourn (PI)
08/01/20-07/31/25
Role: Co-Investigator
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Wolves to Rams Scholars Program
The major goals of this project are to facilitate the transition from Front Range Community College to Colorado State University and completion of a B.S. in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) discipline among underprivileged students through a learning community and scholarships. The project also involves a longitudinal study of the impact of the scholarships on matriculation to a B.S. and entry into a STEM career.
1930150
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Laybourn/Malara (PI)
08/15/19-07/31/24
Role: Co-Investigator/lead Scientist for research study
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R21CA241637
Using Retrospective and Real-time Physical Activity Tracking to Predict Risk of Sunburn in Outdoor Exercisers on Strava
This project will test the feasibility of delivering location-based, ecologically-valid sun safety advice to Strava users at times when they are predicted to be engaged in outdoor physical activity, by utilizing Strava’s public open-source Applications Programming Interface.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Buller/Berteletti (PI)
07/06/20-06/30/23
Role: Co-Investigator, PI of subcontract to CSU
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Intergenerational Studies Consortium: Understanding Mechanisms of Family Substance Use Transmission and Effects of Marijuana Legalization
The major goals of this project are to use integrative data analysis to pool data across three intergeneration studies and maximize scientific discovery.
R01DA015485
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Capaldi/Kerr (PI)
06/01/18-05/30/23
Role: Co-Investigator, PI of subcontract to CSU
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