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UCSC Gets $77,000 Grant to Study Babies

July 21, 2017

Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced that the University of California Santa Cruz was awarded a $77,000 federal grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development for a project called The Emergence of Prosocial Behavior in Infants.

The proposed research will improve our understanding of how infants begin to help others by employing a new methodological approach to studying transitions in social development.

"This grant will help scientists learn more about early childhood development and will pave the way for future research that may promote healthy habits in our community's at-risk populations," Panetta said in a news release.