Professor Lijun Song received an NIH Grant ($1.3 Million) and a Scaling Success Grant
Professor Lijun Song received an R56 (high-priority, short-term) grant of $1.3 million from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, for her project titled National Study of Older Never-Married Adults (NSONMA). She also received a Scaling Success Grant ($76,321)for this project from Vanderbilt University. She is leading a multi-university research team to design the first-ever nationally representative survey of older never-married adults, focusing on their single lives, social networks, and health. Co-investigators include Deborah Carr (Boston University), Qinghua Chen (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Tara McKay (Vanderbilt University), Brea Louise Perry (Indiana University-Bloomington), and Siyun Peng (Indiana University-Bloomington).