Seed Funding
A central aim of CUPC is to provide early support for innovative, collaborative projects with the potential to substantially advance population science. In general, priority for funding will be given to junior researchers and to projects that fall within CUPC’s primary and emerging research areas, all of which are related to the mission of the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch
Seed Grants
Seed grants are offered twice annually through a competitive call among affiliates. These grants (up to $25,000) are designed to support preliminary research and associated expenses needed for the recipient to develop a competitive proposal for external funding.
Rapid Response Grants
Rapid response grants are smaller in size (usually <$3,000) and available on a rolling basis.
Contact Info
Jason Boardman, Development Core Director
For questions about grants, email boardman@colorado.edu.
Anni Magyary
For help with budgets, email anni.magyary@colorado.edu.
Recent Grant Recipients
Kate Coleman-Minahan
- Topic
The impact of sociopolitical events on immigrant young adults’ fertility preferences
- Amount
3,000
- Type
- Rapid Response
- Year
- 2023-2024
Amanda Carrico
- Topic
Health stress and infant health outcomes in Bangladesh
- Amount
15,000
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Jane Menken, Krister Andersson, and Alan Zarychta
- Topic
Sustaining Improvements in Health Service Delivery and Health under Decentralization Reform: Current and Future Collaborative Research in Honduras
- Amount
$7,000
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Colleen Reid and Jessica Finlay
- Topic
Toxic Homes? A mixed-methods study of Marshall Fire health impacts
- Amount
$20,000
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Christine Steeger
- Topic
Understanding Disparities in Nicotine and Cannabis Vaping among Youth
- Amount
$15,000
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Terry McCabe and John O’Loughlin
- Topic
Dynamics of climate change impacts in Kenya: Extending a panel survey to multiple livelihood, population, migration, and ethnic contexts
- Amount
$5,650 from CUPC and $5,000 from IBS
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Amanda Stevenson
- Topic
Countering pronatalism with rigorous demography and social science
- Amount
25,000
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Ryan Masters
- Topic
Nudged Into an Early Grave: The Proliferation of American Lethal Environments and Increases in Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality in the United States
- Amount
25,000
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Patrick Krueger
- Topic
Race/Ethnic and Education Disparities in the Types of Diets Consumed among U.S. Adults
- Amount
17,329
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024
Guofeng Cao
- Topic
Understanding Community Disaster Resilience with GeoAI and Big Geospatial Data
- Amount
24,640
- Type
- Seed Grant
- Year
- 2023-2024