{"id":1381,"date":"2026-03-04T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:08:26","slug":"2026-2027-university-community-partnership-research-awards-ucpra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/2026\/03\/04\/2026-2027-university-community-partnership-research-awards-ucpra\/","title":{"rendered":"2026-2027 University-Community Partnership Research Awards (UCPRA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BU Wheelock Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being (EC Institute) is pleased to announce the awardees for its 2026-2027 University-Community Partnership Research Awards (UCPRA). This award supports convergent research addressing new approaches for sustaining young children\u2019s overall health, education, and well-being locally and globally through collaborations among BU early childhood researchers and community partners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year we are funding grants relating to early care and education, early childhood development, maternal mental health, music education, environmental health, and climate misinformation. We have <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">colleagues<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0from ed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ucation, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">psychiatry<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, pediatric, public health, music, and communication collaborating on convergent research studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about the awards we have funded visit: [<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/research\/communitypartnershipsaward\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/research\/communitypartnershipsaward\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ecinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/Jelonids-Edits-2-477x636.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"917\" class=\" wp-image-1385 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/Jelonids-Edits-2-477x636.png 477w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/Jelonids-Edits-2-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/Jelonids-Edits-2-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/Jelonids-Edits-2-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/Jelonids-Edits-2.png 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BU Wheelock Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being (EC Institute) is pleased to announce the awardees for its 2026-2027 University-Community Partnership Research Awards (UCPRA). This award supports convergent research addressing new approaches for sustaining young children\u2019s overall health, education, and well-being locally and globally through collaborations among BU early childhood researchers and community partners.\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}