Recent Grants
(Past 10 Years)
Current Grants
Great Journeys Award (2024-2025)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- Social support and stress in an animal model
Great Journeys Award (2023-2024)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- The benefits of music therapy for coping with stress: studies in an animal model
Research and Artistry Award (2024-2025)
- Division of Research and Innovative Partnerships, Northern Illinois University
- The protective influence of music against social stress: investigation of neurobiological mechanisms
Previous Grants (Federal)
NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award, R15 (2019-2023)
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Sex-specific mechanisms of exercise underlying resilience to social stress
Military Dental Research Grant (2021-2023)
- Dental Congressional Special Interest Funding
- Social stress and inflammation in male and female prairie voles
NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award, R15 (2012-2016)
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Mechanisms of social isolation and environmental enrichment in an animal model
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, F32 (2012-2015)
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Cardiovascular disease, depression, and oxytocin
- Awarded to Melissa-Ann Scotti, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
NIH Exploratory Research Grant, R21 (2008-2012)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Behavioral, autonomic, and endocrine regulation in depression and heart disease
Previous Grants (Internal, Research and Artistry)
Research and Artistry Award (2022-2023)
- Division of Research and Innovative Partnerships, Northern Illinois University
- Inflammation and social stress
Research and Artistry Award (2019-2021)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- The protective effects of exercise against social isolation
Research and Artistry Award (2017-2018)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- Social stress and the brain
Previous Grants (Internal, Great Journeys Assistantships)
Great Journeys Award (2022-2023)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- Exercise and antidepressant treatments to protect against social stress
Great Journeys Award (2021-2022)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- Stress, development, and stress resilience strategies using an animal model
Great Journeys Award (2020-2021)
- Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Northern Illinois University
- Social stress, emotion, and physiology
Great Journeys Award (2019-2020)
- Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University
- Contagious stress: consequences of observing another individual experience stress
Great Journeys Award (2018-2019)
- Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University
- The influence of social relationships on stress responses in an animal model
Great Journeys Award (2017-2018)
- Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University
- Stress and the brain: studies using an animal model
Great Journeys Award (2016-2017)
- Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University
- Stress-related link between depression and heart disease: the female side of the coin
Great Journeys Award (2015-2016)
- Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University
- Environmental and pharmacological treatments for social stress
Great Journeys Award (2014-2015)
- Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University
- Cardiovascular consequences of social stress: implications for cardiovascular disease
Previous Grants (Internal, Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning)
Student Engagement Fund Award (2017 Fall)
- Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning, Northern Illinois University
- Social bonds and stress: studies in a unique animal model
Student Engagement Fund Award (2017 Spring)
- Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning, Northern Illinois University
- Social bonds, exercise, and the brain
Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award (2014 Summer)
- Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning, Northern Illinois University
- Assistant: Stress and the brain
Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award (2014 Spring)
- Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning, Northern Illinois University
- Assistant: Emotion, social stress, and heart disease