Funding

Research Funding

  • 2024-2025 — Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (ADARP), Dedicated Marijuana Account Grant (DMAc) Grant. Volatile organic compounds (VOC) metabolites in the urine of breastfed infants whose mothers frequently use cannabis. PI: Courtney L. Meehan; Co-I: Michelle McGuire. Project period 1/1/2024-6/30/2025
  • 2023-2025 — The National Institutes of Health. R21(1R21HD113959-01): Cannabis, Human Milk, and Multi-omics. PI: Courtney L. Meehan; Co-Is: Michelle McGuire, Thomas Metz, Mark McGuire, David Gang, Janet Williams, Celestina Barbosa Leiker, Elizabeth Holdsworth, Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson. Project Period: 12/08/2023-11/30/2025.
  • 2021-2023 — Maternal cannabis use during breastfeeding: Impact on infant urinary cannabinoid and cannabinoid metabolite  concentrations. WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program, Dedicated Marijuana, Account (DMAc). PI: Courtney Meehan; Co-PIs Celestina Barbosa Leiker, David Gang, Michelle McGuire, Olivia Brooks.
  • 2022 — Cannabis use while breastfeeding and its impacts on infant cognitive and behavioral development. WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program. PI: Elizabeth Holdsworth Co-PI Courtney Meehan
  • 2021-2022 — Human Milk and Cannabinoids. WSU Health Equity Research Center. PI: Courtney Meehan; Co-PIs Celestina Barbosa Leiker, David Gang
  • 2020-2021 — RAPID: Collaborative Research: COVID-19, human milk and infant feeding. The National Science Foundation (IOS #2031715). PIs: CL Meehan, SM McGuire, M Martin, S Ley.
  • 2016-2020 — Childcare choices, microbiomes, and infant behavior – are they related? PIs – CL Meehan, Michelle McGuire, Maria Gartstein, and Edward Hagen. Health Equity Center (HERC).
  • 2013-2019 — INSPIRE Track 1: What is Normal Milk? Sociocultural, Evolutionary, Environmental, and Microbial Aspects of Human Milk Composition. The National Science Foundation (IOS #1344288). PI: M McGuire; Co-PIs: CL Meehan, JA Foster, S Moore, & L. Bode.
  • 2017 — Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Characterizing pathogen-specific antibodies in human milk.” PIs: Michelle McGuire, Mark McGuire, Courtney Meehan, Janet Williams, Juan Miguel Rodriguez, Xiaowu Liang, Gary Hermanson, Joe Campo, Arlo Randall, Krista Trappl.
  • 2010-2017 — CAREER: Cooperative Childcare and Exchange and Health among Central African Foragers and Farmers. The National Science Foundation (BCS #0955213). PI: CL Meehan.
  • 2015 — Infant temperament in Ethiopia. Initiative for Global Innovation Studies (IGIS), Washington State University. PIs: Courtney Meehan and Masha Gartstein
  • 2009 — Cooperative Childrearing among the Aka Tropical Forest Foragers in the Central  African Republic. PI – Courtney L. Meehan. Office of Grant and Research Development – New Faculty Seed Grant.
  • 2009 — Cooperative Breeding and Maternal Time Allocation among the Aka Tropical Forest Foragers. The Leakey Foundation. P.I. Courtney L. Meehan.

Biocultural Anthropology Lab Members’ Grants and Fellowships

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

  • 2017 — National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Graduate Student – Avery Lane.

Grants

  • 2022 — Breastfeeding and cannabis. WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program Undergraduate Research Fellowship.  Undergraduate Fellow: Jenna Schmidt.
  • 2016 — REG: Risk and Contraception Use. The National Science Foundation. PI – CL Meehan; Co-PI –  Ph.D. Graduate Student Katherine Flores.
  • 2013 — DDRIG: The Effects of Stress on Onset of Cultural and Biological Middle Childhood among the Aka Foragers and the Ngandu Horticulturalists. The National Science Foundation.  PI – Courtney L. Meehan, Co-PI – Courtney Helfrecht.
  • 2012 — REU Supplement: Postpartum Practices among the Aka Foragers of the Central African Republic. The National Science Foundation. PI – Courtney L. Meehan, Undergraduate Student – Courtney Malcom. Funded by BCS Cultural Anthropology and Biological Anthropology Programs.
  • 2011 — REG: Middle Childhood among the Aka Foragers of the Central African Republic. Supplement award to CAREER: Cooperative Childcare and Exchange and Health among Central African Foragers and Farmers.   The National Science Foundation (BCS #0955213). (Graduate Student: Courtney Helfrecht.) Funded by BCS Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Learning Sciences Programs.