Currently Funded

• A Cross-National Investigation of Teacher Responses to Bullying: Influence of Endorsed Cultural Values
• An Innovative, Prospective Model to Understand Risk and Protective Factors for Sexual Assault Experiences and Outcomes Among Sexual Minority Men
• An Online Family-based Program to Reduce Inequity among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth of Color
• Family Acceptance Project: An Online Family-based Program to Reduce Inequity among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth of Color
• Intergenerational Coparenting and Children's Social-Emotional Development in China
• Peaceful Means: Establishment and Evaluation of an Indigenous-led facility to Prevent Sexual Violence among Indigenous Youth across the U.S.
• People’s Perspectives on Poverty and Poverty Assistance Programs
• Project LIVE: Rigorous Evaluation of the READY to Stand Curriculum as a Tool to Prevent the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Youth
• Research on Integrated STEM Efficacy (RISE): A Study of Elementary Preservice Teachers and Noyce Scholars
• Sexual Assault Recovery Among Sexual Minority Women: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Study
• Treatment Intensity Factors Related to Efficient and Effective Communication

Completed

• Advancing Measurement of Spanish-Speaking Students' Mathematics Achievement: A Novel Approach for Controlling Selection Bias in Evaluations of DIF
• Afterschool Programming Return on Investments Studies: A Review of the Literature
• An Exploratory Study to Improve Measurement of School Climate for Online Learners
• Assessing Home Food Environment and Diabetes Self-Management Among Adult Type 2 Diabetes Patients
• At the Intersection of Neighborhoods and Schools: Relationships as Moderators between Neighborhood and Children’s Social-Emotional Development
• Building Bridges through Relationships: A High School Dropout Prevention Program
• Can Family Child Care Home Providers Influence Children's Vegetable Consumption?
• Child Care Market Rate Study
• Coaching for Sustainability: Peer Coaching Science Inquiry in Rural Schools
• Combining Latent Variable Modeling Techniques with Cross-classified Mixed Effect Models for Use in Longitudinal Research
• Common Measures e-Learning
• Conjoint Behavioral Consultation via Distance Delivery (CBC-D): An Evaluation of Efficacy and Acceptability
• Dental Wars: Arming Immigrants with the Tools to Combat Poor Dental Health and Stigma
• Determining the Operative Elements to Improve Parent-Teacher Relationships During Conjoint Behavioral Consultation
• Development and Pilot Evaluation of an Online Intervention to Prevent Dating Violence and Problem Drinking in Sexual Minority Youth
• Development and Validation of the Inventario Dimensional de Avaliacao do Desenvolvimento Infantil
• Early Childhood Plan Evaluation
• Early Steps to School Success
• Educare Evaluation 2018-19
• Enhancing Nebraska 6-12 Teachers' Knowledge of Earth Science Content
• Enhancing Students with Math Difficulties Transition from Arithmetic to Algebra
• Enhancing the 4-H Common Measures: An Evaluation Proposal
• Estimating Mediation Effects in Prevention Studies
• Evaluating the Impact of School Improvement Grants in NE Title I Schools
• Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Teacher Efficacy for Promoting Partnership Measure
• Examining the Associations Among Rural Low-Income Immigrant Parents' Health and Nutrition Literacy, Health- and Food-Related Parenting, and Their Children's Development
• Exploring Cognitive and Foundational Processes Underlying Pre-algebra among Students with and without Mathematics Learning Difficulties
• Exploring Non-Contact Time in Early Childhood Education
• Exploring Student Engagement and Student Development in Caribbean Tertiary Education
• Exploring the Impact of Emotional Availability on the Efficacy of Physical Therapy Intervention
• Identifying the Feasibility and Acceptability of Conducting Longitudinal Outcome Evaluation Research with Adult Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Perceptions of a Comprehensive Service Model
• Impact of Massage Therapy on Well-Being for Parents of Children Recovering from Traumatic Injury or Illness
• Investigating The Impact of Elaborative Conversation Strategies Intervention on Parent-Child Interactions and Preschool Children's Science Learning Using a Single-Case Experimental Design
• Language Bases of Skilled Reading Comprehension
• Language Gains during Early Childhood: Prediction of Later Outcomes and Multiple-Methods Exploration of Relevant Classroom Factors
• LPS Building Bridges
• Maker Fridays: Engaging Rural and Underrepresented High School Students in Pre-Engineering Design and Creativity
• Math Early On
• Math Early On II
• Mathematical Spiritual Wisdom Within Young People
• Mealtime Emotional Climate and Feeding Practices: An Avenue to Improve Children's Dietary Intake in the Early Care and Education Settings
• Measuring Gross Motor Function Change in 3- to 24-Month-Old Children With or at High Risk for CP: Validation of the Gross Motor Function Measure-66 Item Sets
• Mountain-Prairie Upgrade Partnership-Itinerant (MPUP-I)
• Nature Exposure on Children: An Investigation of the Potential Benefits of Nature Exposure on Emotion Regulation of Preschool-aged Children
• Needs and Adaptation of Caregivers of Young Children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome in Northeast Brazil: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Child Development Trajectory: Longitudinal Approach Merging National Surveys and Census Datasets
• Project VIEW: Visual Impairments Education in Writing
• Pursuing Causal Inferences With Complex Survey Data
• Rapid City Family Project
• Reading and Writing Profiles of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• REU Site: Community-Engaged Training for Advancing Health Equity
• RISE with Insects (Resilience Ignited through Science and Ethics)
• Role of REV-ERBβ in Exosome Biogenesis and Release
• Sitting Capacity and Performance in Typically Developing Infants and Infants with Motor Delay
• Sleep in Ag: Investing in the Feasibility of Measuring Sleep Quantity and Quality in Agriculture Workers
• Starting School Socially and Behaviorally Ready: The Impacts of Malleable Home-Based Relationships and Community Setting
• STEM Lesson Creation Coaching Framework to Improve the Pedagogy of K-5 Teachers Implementing the NGSS
• Strategies: Action at a Distance
• Supporting Early Childhood Development in Africa: Capacity-Building Partnership
• Teen Connection Project: Development and Pilot Evaluation of an Online Mentoring Program to Prevent Adversities Among Trans and Other Gender Minority Youth
• Temperament and Preschool Classroom Processes as Predictors of Kindergarten Achievement for Children with Demographic Risk
• The Associations Between Early Numeracy Environments and Young Children's Early Numeracy Skills
• The Cultural Adaptation of Teachers and Parents as Partners (TAPP) to Brazil
• The Development and Psychometric Testing of the Mealtime Emotional Climate in Childcare Observational Scales (MECCOS)
• The Effectiveness of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation on Student Outcomes in Rural Communities: A Follow-Up Study
• The Efficacy of Self-Regulation Interventions: A Series of Meta-Analyses
• Thresholds II
• Understanding the Experience of Bullying Among Students with Disabilities: A Phenomenological Study

Only CYFS-housed projects are included in the network. Please contact to inquire about additional research projects.

• $1.1M grant to launch UNL concussion management program
• Adding up factors of how children learn mathematics
• Art TEAMS promotes teaching innovation through arts, emerging media
• Bass receives funding for study focused on improving outcomes for rural adolescents
• Boosting children’s resilience in the face of socioeconomic risk
• Bovaird, engineering faculty receive EPA ‘healthy schools’ grant
• Brain imaging brings predictors for cochlear implantation success into focus
• Brain-connected technology opening doors for children with severe speech, physical impairments
• Brain-connected technology opens communications doors for those with severe physical impairments
• Bringing American history to life, from paper to pixels
• Building a strong foundation for cross-campus collaboration on executive function research
• Child care study examines whether kids eat healthier when mealtimes are positive
• Children take the reins over ADHD challenges with help from horses
• CHIME expands its reach to Ghana
• Closing the preschool skill gap for disadvantaged children
• Coaching model aims to enhance services for Nebraska infants, toddlers
• Collaboration aims to study, shape children’s attitudes toward engineering
• Community-based research aims to improve support for sex trafficking survivors
• Coutts researching distance tech delivery of intervention to rural communities
• Crockett leads study of contextual impacts on temperament, teen outcomes
• CYFS awarded $2.5 million to advance early childhood development
• CYFS earns $3.2 million grant to assess Getting Ready intervention
• CYFS earns $6.5 million for early childhood studies, national leadership
• CYFS examining intervention’s effects on early obesity
• CYFS joins UNL-Brazil early childhood partnership
• CYFS leading meta-analysis on parental engagement in education
• CYFS researchers evaluate rural Nebraska after-school programs
• CYFS team earns $3.5M grant to support Latino students
• CYFS’ MAP Academy awarded national 4-H grant
• Davis leads evaluation of early childhood project
• Eccarius receives $1.2M grant to train educators of deaf
• Edwards honored by American Society of Criminology for community-engaged research
• Empowering preschool teachers to reflect, talk about science
• Equity-focused research hub bridges gap between university, communities
• Examining strategies to enhance the arithmetic-to-algebra transition
• Exploring ways to help those who help others in the wake of natural disasters
• Faculty provide training, outreach to support international Zika study
• Family partnership program addresses early childhood obesity
• Findings highlight program’s success in reducing, preventing sexual violence among Native American girls
• Get SET Nebraska helping address special education teacher shortage
• Getting Ready to expand early childhood reach
• Global toolkit promotes inclusive health care for marginalized refugees
• Grand Challenges Catalyst project aims to strengthen early childhood workforce — and positive results for children
• Grand Challenges research effort aims to prevent sexual violence among Indigenous youth
• Grand Challenges research effort leverages STEM to inspire climate action
• Help Me Grow Nebraska streamlines access to children’s health care services, resources
• Husker researchers developing AI-based app to boost STEM grades
• Identifying immigrant families’ health issues through Census data
• Identifying, controlling selection bias in tests of differential item functioning
• Interdisciplinary program takes long-range view of visual impairment instruction
• Interdisciplinary study leverages technology to assess preschool teachers’ resilience
• Interpersonal Violence Research Lab works with communities to drive change
• IVRL workshop promotes strategies to prevent teen relationship violence
• Literacy a lifeline for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Maker space project helps build future engineering foundation
• Mindfulness training available to Brazilian educators through CHIME
• Misperceptions may increase problem drinking, dating violence among LGBTQ+ youth
• Moen earns dissertation grant to study partnerships
• Moen presents research at Buffett symposium
• Multi-institutional study explores how students approach course work once class ends
• National study addresses sexual assault among sexual minority men
• Nebraska education researchers work to build statewide consensus on equity
• Nebraska Extension early childhood team develops quality child care guide
• Nebraska part of multi-institutional trail of online sexual assault resistance program
• Nebraska part of nationwide study on infant, toddler cerebral palsy interventions
• Nebraska researchers expand reach of family-school intervention
• Nebraska researchers extend TAPP intervention to rural Appalachia
• Nebraska researchers, Iowa educators collaborate to explore prevention of child sex trafficking
• Nebraska WORDS targets post-pandemic reading success, educator growth
• Nebraska, South Dakota researchers explore solutions to domestic violence among rural Native Americans
• Nebraska-Brazil early childhood research partnership continues progress
• Nebraska-Brazil early childhood research partnership continues to thrive
• New tool uses cultural lens to evaluate young children’s development in Brazil
• Niehaus earns grants to study student engagement
• Partnership aims to diversify, strengthen Nebraska’s early childhood workforce
• Partnership approach supports ADHD-diagnosed students one grade at a time
• Photovoice project provides clear view of Lakota women’s challenges, resilience
• Prevention program aims to reduce dating violence, problem drinking among LGBTQ+ youth
• Program creates pathways to graduation
• Project affirms voices of Indigenous LGBTQ and two-spirit youth
• Project broadens horizons for preservice teachers, middle school students alike
• Project enhances Nebraska STEM access, understanding
• Project examines how external, internal controls in schools affect students’ opportunities to learn
• Project examines public perceptions on poverty’s causes, solutions
• Project explores strengthening connections among religious leaders, nonbinary people
• Project leverages online simulations for real-world civic experience
• Project provides Huskers with hands-on teaching experience in diverse classrooms
• Project VIEW aims to sharpen writing instruction for the visually impaired
• Project’s photos give voice to refugee population
• Promoting cultural understanding through the dialogue of dance
• Research addresses sexual violence prevention among Native American youth
• Research aims to battle adolescent bullying, peer threat
• Research aims to reduce rural child obesity with responsive feeding practices
• Research aims to strengthen Head Start, Early Head Start educators’ well-being
• Research analyzes ‘Chinese virus’ rhetoric and its impact on Chinese and Asian Americans
• Research assessing impacts, solutions of sex trafficking of Native Americans
• Research digesting why children, vegetables don’t always mix
• Research examines outdoor effects on children with autism
• Research explores how classroom time affects children’s self-regulation skills
• Research explores technology to support speech among children with autism
• Research explores ways to bolster early childhood numeracy skills
• Research provides INSIGHTS into child temperament
• Research reveals children’s early adversity, neighborhood have lasting impacts
• Research suggests family mealtimes essential to lifelong health
• Research supports vulnerable youth in the journey from expulsion and juvenile detention to graduation
• Research: Family adversity lowers children’s social-emotional skills
• Researchers address early childhood needs of Nebraska’s immigrant, refugee families
• Researchers aim to empower future K-12 teachers with computer science knowledge
• Researchers building science confidence, capacity among rural early childhood educators
• Researchers collaborate at Early Head Start University Partnership Data Camp
• Researchers examine experiences, needs of Nebraska’s special education teachers
• Researchers examine parents’ role in aiding children with autism
• Researchers explore experiences, needs of Nebraska’s special education teachers
• Researchers fine-tune global measurement standards for early childhood learning
• Researchers gathering eye-opening data to help ensure adequate sleep among agricultural workers
• Researchers using brain-connected technology to enhance life for children with speech and physical impairments
• Researchers, teachers, artists collaborate to envision future of emerging media instruction
• Resource toolkit enables Nebraska Extension personnel to Reach Out for Wellness
• RISE Project aims to improve integrated STEM instruction in elementary classrooms
• Rudasill hosts OTC and highlights UNL’s temperament research in classrooms
• Rudasill studying effects of temperament on early childhood achievement
• Scheel and Kunz receive Woods Charitable Fund award
• SEEDs program promotes healing among women with past addiction, victimization
• Sheridan authors guide to help teachers partner with parents
• Sheridan, Kim edit newly released research series
• SMILE project aided by COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant
• Statewide survey finds Nebraska educators can adjust to ‘virtually’ anything, but at what cost?
• Students gain skills in early childhood autism spectrum disorders
• Study aims to address time crunch among early childhood educators
• Study aims to enhance quality of life for rural Nebraska minorities, communities
• Study aims to support Brazilian early childhood development
• Study assesses modified evaluation method for students placed at risk
• Study examines bonds between babies, parents
• Study examines STEM pathways in the community college
• Study examines strategies to enhance preschool science instruction
• Study explores bullying that targets students with disabilities — and how to fight it
• Study explores coaching strategies that help teachers, students
• Study explores effects of intergenerational family dynamics on child well-being
• Study explores how early language skills predict kindergarten readiness, later reading outcomes
• Study explores how to support caregivers affected by Zika virus
• Study explores pathways to atheism among communities of color, LGBTQ+
• Study exploring school climate experiences of adolescent immigrants
• Study finds variety, cost effectiveness can become barriers to children’s vegetable consumption
• Study investigates American atheists’ stigmatization, psychological well-being
• Study reveals benefits of UNL robotics program
• Study reveals many American atheists hide their non-belief
• Study reveals mental health challenges of Zika-affected caregivers
• Study targets effects of substance misuse on hearing, balance
• Study: Link between older, younger siblings’ dating decisions
• Study: Sleep deficits add up during busy seasons for farmers, ranchers
• Study: Social media discourse significantly drives public’s perception of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders
• Study: Strong parent-teacher ties drive positive outcomes for rural children
• Taking a bite out of immigrant dental health misconceptions
• TAPP brings new tool to students, parents and teachers in Brazil
• TAPP Online brings enhanced support to rural students, families and schools
• TAPP project delivers strong results for Latinx students, parents
• Team develops virtual reality game to teach children healthy habits
• Team supports 4-H program evaluation
• Technology-delivered intervention fosters home-school partnerships in rural Appalachia
• Tippens explores well-being among older refugees
• Tyler using technology to study substance use among homeless
• Welch, NU team awarded childcare evaluation grant
• Williams leads massage therapy study in rehabilitation hospital
• Youth Arise encourages youth civic engagement, entrepreneurship
• ‘Coach Approach’ builds preschool teachers’ capacity to foster mathematics reasoning
• ‘Homegrown’ training program fills need for rural mental health professionals