Listed alphabetically by PI

Social Expectations, Stress, Caregiving and Self-Regulation in African American Older Women
PI: Ellis, J.
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Requested Amount: $24, 991

Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents – Payment Reform
PI: Galambos, C.
Sponsor: University of Missouri
Requested Amount: $18,532 – FUNDED

Ann Innovative Transitions Model of Care to Prevent Cascade of Problems after Delirium
PI: Galambos, C.
Sponsor: Advocate Aurora Health/Aurora Research Institute
Requested Amount: $4,000

Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents – Payment Reform
PI: Galambos, C.
Sponsor: University of Missouri
Requested Amount: $12,449

Brain Map Structure: A Neural Basis for Individual Variation in Attention-Mediated Behavior in Visual Perception and Action
PI: Huddleston, W.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Requested Amount: $1,893,615

Individual Differences in Voxel-wise Modeling of Attention Fields in the Motor System
PI: Huddleston, W.
Sponsor: UWM Graduate School (RGI)
Requested: $124,973

A Community-Based Support & Prevention Program Aimed at Youth Affected by the Opioid Epidemic in Milwaukee, WI
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: University of Baltimore
Requested Amount: $242,309

A Continuum of Dementia Care Systems for Latinos
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: ACL via UCC
Requested Amount: $96,747 – FUNDED

Caregiving Programs, Development of Professional Materials and YCare Trainings in ALS
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: ALS Association
Requested Amount: $71,448 – FUNDED

YCare South Africa: Building Community Based ALS/MND Caregiver Interventions in South Africa
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: ALS Clinical Management
Requested Amount: $200,000 – FUNDED

YCare: Self-management, Self-efficacy and Skill Building Intervention for Young Caregivers
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Requested Amount: $1,655,470

In-depth Examination of Opioid Deaths in Milwaukee County
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: Milwaukee County Behavioral Health
Requested Amount: $74,964

Assistive Technology for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
PI: Lee, Y.
Sponsor: UWM Collaborative Research Team Development Awards
Requested Amount: $15,000 – FUNDED

To See a World Through Their Eyes: Barriers to Activity Engagement Among Older Adults Living Alone with Early Stage Dementia
PI: Lee, Y.
Sponsor: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS)
Requested Amount: $23,533

Developing a Self-Management Application using Mobile Health with Artificial Intelligence Speech Recognition Technologies for Older Adults with High Blood Pressure and Diabetes
PI: Oh, H.
Sponsor: UWM Office of Research/Research and Creative Activities Support RACAS
Requested Amount: $25, 000

Prenatal Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Epigenetic Programming of a Pro-inflammatory Phenotype
PI: Simanek, A.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Requested Amount: $2,180,292

Optimizing Activity Monitor Data Collection and Processing Methods Through a Comprehensive Naturalistic Validation
PI: Strath, S.
Sponsor: Cal Poly via National Institutes
Requested Amount: $1,309,286

A Natural Experiment to Measure the Impact of School Yard Greening on Student Activity Levels and Obesity Risk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
PI: Swartz, A.
Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin
Requested Amount: $507,846

Health Approaches to Improve Water Consumption Opportunities in Child Care Facilities (H2O)
PI: Walker, R.
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Requested Amount: $298,796

Cancer Prevention through a Community-focused Nutrition Intervention
PI: Walker, R.
Sponsor: American Cancer Society
Requested Amount: $24,947

Applying Current Motor Learning Theories to Improve Motor Performance during Visuomotor Adaptation in Persons with Ideomotor Limb Apraxia
PI: Wang, J.
Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin CTSI
Requested Amount: $38,073

Supporting Healthy Activities in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairments Using A Smart and Connected Social Robotic System
PI: Zheng, Z.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Requested Amount: $801,336

A Virtual Reality Sensory Investigation System for Children with ASD: A Feasibility Study of Classroom Performance
PI: Zheng, Z.
Sponsor: UWM RGI
Requested Amount: $112,439

Automatic Estimation of Older Adults’ Engagement Level during Human-robot Social Interaction through Transfer Learning
PI: Zheng, Z.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Requested Amount: $174,968

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Distinguishing normal from pathological aging: Using eye movement measures to investigate age-related changes in memory
PI: Driscoll, I
Sponsor: NIH
Requested Amount: $275,000

Transition Step Mechanics, How Influential Are Age and Fall Risk?
PI: Gerstle, E. (PhD candidate)
Mentor: Cobb, S.
Sponsor: International Society of Biomechanics
Requested Amount: $2,000 – FUNDED

The Relationship of the Strong Woman Schema, Caregiver Role Strain, Stress and Self-Regulation to Chronic Disease Self-Management in African American Older Women
PI: Ellis, J.
Sponsor: UWM Office of Research/Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS)
Requested Amount: $23,662

YCare: Self-management, Self-efficacy and Skill building Intervention for Young Caregivers
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Requested Amount: $1,585,434

Alzheimer’s care management in minority groups: Identifying warning signs and crisis points in transitions from informal to formal care management in African American and Latino populations
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: National Institute of Health
Requested Amount: $279, 628

YCare South Africa: Building Community based MND Caregiver Interventions in South Africa
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Requested Amount: $360,630

In-depth Examination of Opioid Deaths in Milwaukee County
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Amount: $149,464 – FUNDED

Development of Youth Guides and Supportive Web-based Materials
PI: Kavanaugh, M.
Sponsor: ALS Association
Amount: $28,075 – FUNDED

Neural mechanisms contributing to falls in older adults
PI: Keenan, K.
Sponsor: UWM Office of Research/Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS)
Amount: $15,000 – FUNDED

Early Stage Dementia, Older Adults, Living Alone, Activity Engagement
PI: Lee, Y.
Sponsor: UWM Office of Research/Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS)
Requested Amount: $14,973

To See a World through Their Eyes: Barriers to Activity Engagement among Older Adults Living Alone with Early Stage Dementia
PI: Lee, Y.
Sponsor: UWM Office of Research (Research and Creative Activities Support)
Requested Amount: $14,973

Life Course Influenza Exposure and Immunosenescence in Older Adults
PI: Meier, H.C.S.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Requested Amount: $451,375

Lifecourse influenza & immune function (Shaw Scientist Proposal)
PI: Meier, H.
Sponsor: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Requested Amount: $400,000

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Adverse Birth Outcomes and Fetal Programming of Inflammation
PI: Simanek, A.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (Resubmission)
Requested Amount: $444,382

Maternal Socioeconomic Disadvantage During Pregnancy and Fetal Programming of Inflammation
PI: Simanek, A.
Sponsor: Russell Sage Foundation
Requested Amount: $149,414

Update and Novel Validation of the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ)
PI: Strath, S.
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts – Amherst (Resubmission)
Requested Amount: $156,979

Optimizing activity monitor data collection and processing methods through a comprehensive naturalistic validation
PI: Strath, S.
Sponsor: NIH/via California Polytechnic
Requested Amount: $1,291,204

Illness perceptions in congestive heart failure
PI: Swartz, A.
Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin
Amount: $4,285 – FUNDED

Illness perceptions in congestive heart failure
PI: Swartz, A.
Sponsor: MCW
Requested Amount: $4,258 – FUNDED

Food Processing as a Public Health Strategy: Supporting Food Product Innovation to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
PI: Walker, R.
Sponsor: United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
Requested Amount: $28,554

Examining the Effects of Model-free Learning Techniques on Sensorimotor Learning Deficits in Stroke Patients with Apraxia
PI: Wang, J.
Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Requested Amount: $37,486

Understanding Sensorimotor learning Deficits in Ideomotor Limb Apraxia
PI: Wang, J.
Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin, Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Requested Amount: $36,548

Applying current motor learning theories to improve upper limb motor function in stroke patients with apraxia
PI: Wang, J.
Sponsor: American Heart Association
Requested Amount: $187, 260