Welcome
The LittleBeats Projects are being conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Dr. Nancy McElwain (Department of Human Development and Family Studies; Director of the Interdisciplinary Lab for Social Development) in collaboration with Dr. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois) and Dr. Bashima Islam (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute).
Our LittleBeats projects are supported by funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R34-DA050256, R01-DA059422), National Institute of Mental Health (R21-MH112578), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (ILLU-793-368), Illinois Center for Social and Behavioral Science, and Illinois Jump ARCHES (UI Award#104334). We are grateful to the families who have participated in our LittleBeats projects and for the support of the Beckman Institute.