Funded Alcorn State University NEO Philanthropic Group $250,000 Title: SAFRA Proposal submitted to enhance nursing education capacity within the School of Nursing Role: PI

Alcorn State University Title III $990,000 Title: Enhancing Nursing Education Capacity SAFRA Proposal submitted to enhance nursing education capacity within the School of Nursing Role: PI

Ulowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Award (Clark, PI) 07/11-07/14 $50,000 Title: Body Composition and Health in Sudanese Families The goal of this study is to obtain information on body composition and metabolic risk factors for diabetes and heart disease in Sudanese families. We want to determine how body composition and metabolic risk factors are affected by family inheritance and by environmental factors found in the Sudan and in the United States. Role: Co-Investigator

Role: Co-Investigator

NIH P20 MD004817 (Southern, PI) 04/10-04/15 $1.5 million Title: Obesity & Asthma: Determinants of Inflammation & Effect of Intervention The overall goal of this project is to better understand the relationship between genetic variability and the inflammatory response in asthma and to determine whether the relationship differs between obese and non-obese or whether it is modified by diet and exercise. Role: Co-Investigator

Role: Co-Investigator

Gentilly Center for Health Disparities and Disease Prevention 08/11-08/12 $80,000

Title: Characterizing ancestral admixture in an African American Cohort The specific aims of this study are designed to estimate the degree of ancestry, explore patterning phenotypes, and to inform the viability of conducting larger studies in African Americans populations.

Role: PI

Dillard University President's Academic Enhancement Award 06/08-06/09 $5,000 Development of an instrument to evaluate adolescent lifestyle Explore the complementary components of healthy lifestyle behaviors among African American adolescents. Develop and pilot the resultant multidimensional instrument developed to assess health promoting behaviors in African American adolescents. Role: PI