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Announcing 2010 Young Scholars Competition

Announcing 2010 Young Scholars Competition            FCD's Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports a new generation of scholars conducting research on the development of young children (birth-10) in immigrant families, particularly those who are low-income. To be eligible, researchers must have earned their doctoral degrees within the last 15 years, and be tenure-track faculty members at a college or university in the United States. Three to four fellowships of up to $150,000 for use over one to three years (and in rare cases, up to five years) will be awarded competitively. Tenure-equivalent positions are not eligible for the program.

The deadline for proposals is November 4, 2009.

Download the following PDF documents:

• 2010 FCD Young Scholars Program Description
• 2010 FCD Young Scholars Proposal and Budget Format

Announcing FCD's 2009 Young Scholars        Since 2003, FCD has made grants to 23 researchers through the Young Scholars Program. This year, the Young Scholars are:

• Christia Spears Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, at the University of Kentucky, for the study, Children Succeeding During Demographic Shifts: How Discrimination and Ethnic Identity Predict the Academic Attitudes and Performance of Latino Children in a White Community.
• Joanna Dreby, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University, for the study, The Daily Lives of Children in Mexican Immigrant Households.
• Anna Gassman-Pines, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Child and Family Policy, at Duke University, for the study, Paternal Employment, Family Functioning and Young Child Well-Being: A Daily Diary Study of Mexican Immigrant Families.