The Office of Research wishes sincerest congratulations to Steve Nicholas Du Bois, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Karl Stolley, Associate Professor in the Department Information Technology and Management for their winning multidisciplinary proposal for the Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF). Their project is titled Pilot Testing an App-Based, Self-Compassion Intervention Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals Newly Diagnosed with HIV.

The Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF) Award provides seed funding to initiate innovative multi-investigator, multidisciplinary research and education programs.