Jay Teachman (Sociology) gets $75K grant from National Science Foundation

Jay Teachman (Sociology), along with Lucky Tedrow, director of WWU's Demographic Research Laboratory, has been awarded a $74,785 grant from the National Science Foundation American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to study the impact of military service on health.

During this two-year grant, which began on July 1, Teachman and Tedrow will be analyzing data collected from military volunteers as part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Research will be focused primarily on men and women who served in the 1980s and '90s and who are now in their 40s. The grant ends on June 30, 2011.