Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) and CU Population Center (CUPC) had a record number of responses for their calls for proposals for Research Development Awards/Seed Grants! We had a total of 15 applications between the two funding calls and were able to fund almost $125,000 in awards using IBS, CUPC, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and
A new article from the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine discusses the research of Bertha Bermúdez Tapia. Bermúdez Tapia is a PhD student in sociology and a graduate affiliate for the Health and Society Program and the Center for the Governance of Natural Resources at IBS. Her work covers how deportees and asylum seekers living in
A new article from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) features the work of Terry McCabe, Director of the Environment and Society program at IBS and recently awarded 2020 AAAS fellow. From 1980 to 1996 Professor McCabe worked as part of the South Turkana Ecosystem Project among Turkana pastoralists in northwestern Kenya.
Dave Bechhoefer and Angelia Baker from the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence's (CSPV) Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver (YVPC-D) have been working with community members in the Montbello and Park Hill Neighborhoods of Denver, CO to prevent youth violence. Their work was recently highlighted in a Fox News article addressing the challenges that studying youth violence has faced
A news article from Colorado Public Radio (CPR) discusses the fires that raged through Grand Lake last fall and how residents are on their own when it comes to protecting their homes. The article highlights Hannah Brenkert-Smith from IBS's Environment and Society Program and her work with WiRē. WiRē is a team of wildfire practitioners and social scientists whose work
David Pyrooz and Scott Decker's book Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons was awarded the Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). David Pyrooz is an Associate Professor of Sociology at CU Boulder and is part of the Problem Behavior and Positive Youth Development Program at IBS. This award comes from the ACJS which
For many years parents have been worried about the amount of time their kids use technology. However, a new study from CU Boulder says that the amount of time technology is used by adolescents only weakly predicts how much time they will spend on electronics as a young adult. Lead researchers on the team Stefanie Mollborn,
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Boulder Country Public Health Executive Director, Jeff Zayach has made his message to the Boulder community very clear: personal responsibility can stop the spread of the virus. "Whether we think it’s an effective message or not, it really does come down to people taking responsibility for
Terry McCabe, director of the Environment and Society Program was elected to be a 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow. He was elected due to his tremendous contributions to anthropology and his reseaach studying people's ability to adapt to arid rangelands in East Africa. AAAS fellows are elected each year by their peers
The Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) is inviting all University of Colorado faculty and research staff to apply for the 2020-2021 research development awards. Preference will be given to teams that include current IBS Fellows and staff, and that engage with questions represented by one of the five IBS programs. IBS has earmarked dedicated funds for
