The University of Illinois at Chicago ( UIC ) has announced six new seed grant awards to campus researchers studying LGBT issues under a grant from the Los Angeles-based David Bohnett Foundation.
The awards are the second round of grants funded by the foundation, which last June awarded the UIC Chancellor's Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues $20,000 to advance LGBT research at UIC. The first three seed grants were awarded last fall.
The interdisciplinary review committee funded two student and four faculty projects for a total of $14,000. The recipients are:
—Christine Holland, doctoral candidate in psychology, who is investigating the effects of childhood sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder on the functioning of adult males;
—Mona Noriega, doctoral candidate in public administration, who is examining LGBT aging issues;
—Colleen Corte, assistant professor of health systems science in the College of Nursing, for a pilot feasibility project to investigate self-identities and risk behaviors in LGBT adolescents;
—Peter Ji, research assistant professor of psychology, to investigate the appropriateness of using the LGBT Ally Identity Development Scale in diverse populations;
—Brian Mustanski, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the IMPACT LGBT Health and Development Program, to study the development of sexual orientation and the feasibility of retaining a study sample of LGBT youth into adulthood; and
—James Swartz, associate professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work, to develop enhanced HIV-prevention services for gay men who abuse methamphetamines and other drugs.