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Research Project Archive

2001 and Earlier

  • 2001 fall - William L. Yarber is a coauthor of the fourth edition of a college textbook, Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America (McGraw-Hill, 2002), one of the most widely used textbooks in human sexuality on U.S. college campuses.
  • 2001 fall - William L. Yarber has received a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention. The five-year project funding is expected to reach at $1.25 million.
  • 2001 fall - Deborah Fravel has become a Certified Family Life Educator, which requires documented competencies in 10 family life substance areas. She is a Content Specialist for the recently funded $850,000 grant awarded by the Department of Education to Dr. Barbara Hawkins at IU Center on Aging and the Aged.
  • 2001 fall - Alice Lindeman is working with a bariatric surgeon - researching the effects of weight loss on morbidly obese people.
  • 2001 fall - The Indiana Prevention Resource Center (IPRC), an integral part of the department, received a four-year renewal of its funding from the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Mental Health. Led by executive director William J. Bailey, the IPRC is heavily engaged in the development and application of technological innovations in drug abuse prevention. It has received much national media coverage during the past year for its research and technical assistance services.
  • 2001 spring - Kathy Gilbert has been busy producing a book, Emotional Nature of Qualitative Research, and the 2000-2001 The Annual Edition of Marriage and the Family.
  • 2001 spring - Catherine Sherwood-Puzzello has been involved in a number of community initiatives including working with Susan Stone to evaluate the Teen Options program for preventing teen pregnancy, helping to establish a permanent cancer support group through Bloomington Hospital's Oncology Unit and training 8 AHS students as Fresh Start facilitators for American Cancer Society's smoking cessation program.
  • 2000 summer - William Bailey reports a trend showing decreases in most drug-taking behavior by Hoosier youth
  • 2000 summer - William Bailey summarizes findings from 31 surveys conducted by Indiana schools in 1999 and reports that most Hoosier youth make positive decisions to avoid risky behavior.
  • 2000 spring - William Bailey and Mohammad Torabi received a contract through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to coordinate the FDA's Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program in Indiana. The value of the cost-reimbursement contract is expected to exceed $1.7 million over the next five years.
  • 2000 spring - Ruth Engs' new book, Clean Living Movement: American Cycles of Health Reform, was released by Praeger Publishing.
  • 2000 spring - David Birch served on a Task Force in Washington, DC for a SOPHE project entitled "The Impact of Certification on Health Education," and on the Planning committee for an Invitational Meeting held in Reston, VA on "Future Directions in Quality Assurance in Professional Preparation in Health Education."
  • 2000 spring - Alice Lindeman planned a project with AmeriFIT to conduct a 7-month, double-blind clinical trial of their product, Estroven, with about 150 perimenpausal women.
  • 2000 spring - Maria Schmidt participated on the Infant Mental Health Development Team for an Indiana SPRANS (Special Projects of Regional and National Significance, for which Indiana was one of four states awarded funding) grant.
  • 2000 spring - Catherine Sherwood-Puzzello participated on a grant project with the Indiana State Department of Health regarding infant mental health.
  • 1999 fall - Thomas Tai-Seale completed his 12th service-learning project, this one in collaboration with the Indiana Public Health Association, the Lawrence County Health Department, and a local citizen's group.
  • 1999 fall - William Bailey received a $525,000 grant from the Indiana Division of Mental Health to coordinate statewide prevention activities under Indiana's State Incentive Grant Program.
  • 1999 fall - Deborah Fravel was invited to serve on the newly-formed Family Outreach Advocacy board for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington, DC.

 

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