Center for Families

The Center for Families is pleased to announce three new fellowship recipients.

Neelu Chawla, a graduate student in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies, has been awarded the Van Scoyoc Fellowship for the summer of 2008 for her project, "Couple and Family Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.'

Leslie Cradler, an undergraduate student in the Department of Foods and Nutrition has been awarded a research enhancement award for her project, “Are adolescent attitudes toward calcium rich foods and intake of dietary calcium related to the presence of grandparent(s) living in the household?”

Carol Boushey, professor in the Department of Foods and Nutrition, and Melissa Franks, assistant professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies and theme leader in the Center for Families, have been awarded a Hancook Faculty Fellowship. Their project, “Correspondence in Daily Diet Quality of Patients with Diabetes and Their Spouses,” will be supported for the 2008–2009 year.

The panel of reviewers consisted of Mia Smith Bynum (CFF faculty partner and advisory council member), Xinran Lehto (CFF faculty partner and advisory council member), and Susan Lambert (CFF advisory council member).