Currently Funded Grants & Contracts

Early Childhood Education and Intervention

Diversity Supplement for Parent Engagement & Child Learning Birth to Five
Principal Investigators: Dr. Susan Sheridan (PI)

Evaluating the Validity of Competing Methods for Measuring Cortical Activity
Principal Investigators: Dr. James Bovaird (PI)

Institute for Parent-Professional Partnerships: Promoting the Competence of Young Children and Their Families
Principal Investigators: Dr. Carolyn Pope-Edwards (PI), Dr. Susan Sheridan (Co-PI)

Mountain Prairie Upgrade Partnership - Early Childhood
Principal Investigators: Dr. Christine Marvin (PI), Dr. Malinda Eccarius (PI)

Multi-Component Parent Engagement Intervention: What are the Sustained Effects for Young Children and Families?
Principal Investigators: Dr. Lisa Knoche (PI)

National Forum on the Science of Early Childhood Intervention
Principal Investigator: Dr. Helen Raikes (PI)

Nebraska Early Childhood Deaf Education Personnel Upgrade Project
Principal Investigator: Dr. Christine Marvin (PI)

Parent Engagement and Child Learning Birth to Five: "The Getting Ready Project"
Principal Investigators: Dr. Susan Sheridan (PI), Dr. Carolyn Pope-Edwards (Co-PI)

The Role of Tribal Child Care Programs in Serving Children Birth to Five
Principal Investigator: Dr. Carolyn Pope-Edwards (PI)

Academic Interventions, Learning and Literacy

ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators (ARISE)

Principal Investigators: Dr. Gwen Nugent (Co-PI), Dr. Gina Kunz (Co-PI)

An Extension of Response-to-Intervention: Moving Toward Written Language
Principal Investigators: Dr. Merilee McCurdy (PI)

Carnegie Network on the Professional Practice Doctorate
Principal Investigators: Dr. Larry Dlugosh (Co-PI), Dr. Margaret Latta (Co-PI)

CYFS Evaluation for LPS Mentoring Project

Evaluator: Dr. Gwen Nugent(PI)

Development and Implementation of a Field-based Inquiry Focused Geoscience Course for Pre-service Teachers
Principal Investigators: Dr. Richard Levy (PI), Dr. David Harwood (PI), Dr. Gwen Nugent (PI), Dr. Gina Kunz (PI)

Evaluation of the Efficacy of CBC for Assessing Disruptive Behaviors of Children At-Risk for Academic Failure
Principal Investigators: Dr. Susan Sheridan (Co-PI), Dr. Todd Glover (Co-PI)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education and ArtsReach
Principal Investigators: Nancy Engen-Wedin (PI), Dr. Gina Kunz (Co-PI)

Professional Development Science and Math Summer Technology Institute
Principal Investigators: Dr. Laurence Rilett (Co-PI), Dr. Gwen Nugent (Co-PI), Dr. Gina Kunz (Co-PI)

Rural Language & Literacy Connections (Rural LLC)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Lisa Knoche (PI), Dr. Helen Raikes (Co-PI)

School Psychology Futures: Family School Partnership Project
Principal Investigators: Dr. Susan M. Sheridan (PI), S. Andrew Garbacz (Co-PI), Ashley M. Rohlk (Co-PI), Kathryn E. Woods (Co-PI)

School Psychology Leadership Specialization in Response-to-Intervention Research and Systems Change
Principal Investigators: Dr. Edward Daly (PI), Dr. Merilee McCurdy (PI), Dr. Susan M. Sheridan, Dr. Gina M. Kunz

Science, Math and Robots After School: Programming for the 21st Century
Principal Investigators: Dr. Brad Barker (PI), Dr. Gwen Nugent (Co-PI)

State-Wide Response-to-Intervention Consortium for Training and Evaluation
Principal Investigators: Dr. Todd Glover (PI), Dr. Lisa Kelly-Vance (Co-PI), Dr. Edward Daly, III (Co-PI), Dr. Merilee McCurdy (Co-PI)

Summer Writing Institute
Principal Investigators: Dr. Merilee McCurdy (PI)

Transportation Curriculum Development Using Technology Application in STEM
Principal Investigators: Dr. Laurence Rilett (Co-PI) and Dr. Gina Kunz (Co-PI)

Youth Risk Factors and Behaviors

Project TEAMS

Principal Investigators: Dr. Suzanne Kemp (PI)

Child and Youth Health Promotion

Family-Centered Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Sheridan (PI)

Evaluation: Healthy Families Play Outside

Evaluator: Dr. Gwen Nugent

Completed Grants

Academic Intervention Outreach Grant for Children with Developmental Disabilities
Principal Investigators: Dr. Gina M. Kunz (PI), Dr. Rachel Valleley (PI), Dr. Tawnya Meadows

Bridges: School to Home Literacy and Technology Initiative
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gwen Nugent (PI)

Development and Evaluation of Innovative Teaching and Learning Models that Prepare, Support, and Sustain K-12 Science Education
Principal Investigators: Dr. Gina M. Kunz (PI), Dr. Deborah Carlson (PI), Dr. Gwen Nugent, Dr. Richard Levy, Dr. David Harwood

Effective Treatment of Adolescent Sex Offenders: The Development and Implementation of a Risk Assessment Service
Principal Investigators: Dr Jodi Viljoen (PI)

Leadership Specialization in Home-School Consultation and Support for Students with Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Susan Sheridan (PI)

Medicaid Billing for Infants/Toddlers with Special Needs in Nebraska
Principal Investigators: Dr. Beth Doll (PI), Dr. Christine Marvin (Co-PI), Dr. Gwen Nugent (Co-PI)

Response-to-Intervention in Nebraska
Principal Investigators: Dr. Edward Daly (PI)

Response-to-Intervention Phase I Training for Nebraska
Principal Investigators: Dr. Edward Daly (PI), Dr. Merilee McCurdy (Co-PI), Dr. Todd Glover (Co-PI), Dr. Elizabeth Doll (Co-PI)

The Power of Documentation: Children's Learning Revealed
Principal Investigators: Dr. Carolyn Pope-Edwards (PI)

Strategic Cluster for the Development of the Institute for Childhood and Adolescent Risk Prevention
Principal Investigators: Dr. Susan Sheridan (PI), Dr. Les Whitbeck (Co-PI)