
InCHIP Services Support Research
InCHIP has a twenty-year history of supporting research in the behavioral and social health sciences at UConn. We offer a variety of programs, services, and resources to UConn health researchers free of charge. InCHIP support falls into three interconnected areas - Research Training and Development, Team Science and Collaboration, and Grants Management.
Are you new to InCHIP or not sure where to start? We would love to learn more about your research and discuss your needs - schedule a meeting with our Research Development Specialist.
Upcoming Events
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Mar
22
Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women12:00pm
Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Zoom
ARMS/Brown Webinar Series 2023
The University of Connecticut’s Center for Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship (ARMS) in Gun Injury Prevention and Brown University’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy have jointly collaborated to host a four-part webinar series entitled Bearing the Burden. The series focuses on gun violence in America, its
intersection with domestic violence, and its disproportionate impact on women, especially women of color. This series will bring together those focusing on these crucial issues across multiple domains and academic disciplines.
Part 2 - Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women
Date: Wednesday March 22, 2023 | 12PM-1:30PM (Eastern Time)
Format: Via Zoom
Description: This panel brings together legislators and scholars who study the creation of firearm laws to understand how state and federal governments create firearm policy. Topics to be discussed include when laws are too vague, who fills the gaps, what laws have been effective, and what happens when people in power do not want to comply with the law.
Panelists:
US Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Congressman, Rhode Island’s First Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives
Gretta Gardner, Esq., Chief Legal Officer, Ujima Inc., The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
Lisa Geller, Director of State Affairs, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
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Moderator: Professor Kaitlin Sidorsky (Coastal Carolina University)
RSVP: https://chip.uconn.edu/arms-webinar-series-2023/Contact Information: arms@uconn.edu
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Mar
23
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP: "Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being"12:30pm
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP: "Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being"
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Virtual
Jeffrey Proulx, PhD, Brown University
March 23, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
“Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being: Results from the IndigenousMIND Project”
Dr. Proulx’s work focuses on the development of mindfulness programs in underserved communities and how these programs may be protective for health in those communities. His efforts bridge Native American and African-American traditional contemplative and healing practices and mainstream mindfulness practices and how mindfulness affects resilience and well-being across a person's developmental trajectory. Dr. Proulx’s work includes studying changes in physiological markers, such as cortisol or blood sugar levels, their relationship to stress and how responses to stress earlier in life may affect health later in life. Stress in minority communities is also influenced by historical and cultural traumas and his work is designed to address the loss of culture and traditions by relying on community input to assimilate community strengths and traditions that are already “mindful” into the mindfulness intervention. The goals of these interventions reflect the distinct cultures of the people he works with and affect health disparities in conditions such as diabetes and dementia. Dr. Proulx is recognized as a developmental health psychologist and his work integrates other disciplines including public health, medicine, molecular biology, and lifecourse sociology.
View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/Contact Information: lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu
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Research Training and Development
InCHIP helps researchers move their research ideas to funded projects through one-on-one consultations, mentorship, pilot funding, and grant writing training. Listed below are a few of the programs available. You can learn more about all of InCHIP's services here.
Internal Funding Opportunities
InCHIP hosts several annual seed grant competitions. These seed grants provide pilot funding to investigators to stimulate new health research at UConn that ultimately leads to external funding.
Grant Writing Training
InCHIP is currently offering one program aimed at helping faculty and postdocs write NIH grants: the R-Series Boot Camp led by Seth Kalichman Psychological Sciences).
Proposal Feedback
Prior to submitting an external grant, InCHIP can provide feedback on grant proposals through the Grant Proposal Incubator (GPI), or can arrange and provide funds for an External Grant Review.
Find Funding or Build Your Team
InCHIP’s Research Development Specialist can work with UConn Faculty to build a targeted list of external funding mechanisms and help researchers identify and build collaborations across UConn.
Team Science & Collaboration:
Team science is in many ways at the heart of InCHIP’s mission – we strive to bring researchers together to develop innovative solutions to society’s most urgent health care challenges. Partnerships brokered by InCHIP span UConn departments, colleges, and campuses and represent the best of what team science has to offer – a problem-focused, solution driven perspective that allows new ideas to form at the edges of interdisciplinary fields and advances the science base through high-impact research discoveries. InCHIP can help researchers connect with other UConn-based researchers, community-based organizations, and clinicians. Listed below are a few of the programs available. To learn more about the services available click here.
Community-Engaged Research Services
InCHIP offers a variety of services to foster and support the development of equitable research partnerships between UConn researchers and community-based organizations that address important public health issues.
Convergence Award Program
InCHIP's Convergence Awards Program is designed to prepare interdisciplinary teams at UConn to be competitive for convergence funding from NIH, NSF, and other funding agencies.
Faculty Research Collaboration Services
InCHIP can help researchers connect with other UConn-based researchers, community-based organizations, and clinicians based on the needs of their project or team.
InCHIP Ideas Labs
Ideas Labs are multi-day workshops held by institutions (and sometimes federal agencies) to spark creative solutions to complex problems by harnessing the collective energy of an interdisciplinary team. InCHIP works with creativity experts from KnowInnovation (KI) to implement Ideas Labs here at UConn.

InCHIP Grants Management & Business Services
InCHIP’s Grants Management Team provides InCHIP affiliates with the tools needed to submit and manage externally-funded projects. InCHIP’s Pre-Award services help faculty through the entire application process. Upon being awarded, InCHIP’s Grant Management Team will assist investigators in processing the grant through the life of the grant’s award period.