CSSI researcher affiliate Haelim Jeong, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, studies suicide prevention, including suicidal ambivalence—the co-occurring desire to live and to die—among suicide attempt survivors. Jeong was also recently selected to be part of a research collaboration supported by CSSI’s Research Convergence Residency Program to explore loneliness, sleep disruption, and the use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT for mental health support.

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded proposal-development support through the Center for Social Science Innovation’s (CSSI) Grant Writing Residency Program (GWRP), a competitive initiative designed to help advance high-quality, externally funded research in the social sciences.