DreamScience Foundation

2007 Award Winners - DreamScience^TM foundation (DSF)

The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) in conjunction with the DreamScience^TM foundation (DSF) wishes to proudly announce the award of the 2007 Research Grant funds. This year the total grant funding available was $6000 which was split evenly between the following two research teams:

Grant #1: $3000 award to Canadian researchers at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, Sleep Research Centre, Sacré-Coeur Hospital, Montreal: Philippe Stenstrom (M.Sc.) Department of Psychology, University of Montreal and Tore Nielsen (Ph.D.) Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal. Research Titled: “Effects of REM sleep deprivation on dreaming and episodic memory”

Grant # 2: $3000 award to the research team of Clara E. Hill, PhD, and Charles J. Gelso, PhD. at the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Research Titled: “Dream Work in Ongoing Therapy“

IASD and DSF are working in partnership to provide “seed” grants for dream research. The objective of this joint granting activity is to stimulate dream related research and to enhance the “S” or “Study” mission of IASD in supporting research. The grants are awarded to recipients, based on judging by a Research Grant Committee, of proposals received. Those receiving grants are invited to report the results at the annual IASD conferences and in the appropriate IASD periodicals. For more information and summaries of the research receiving the two awards, go to subidx_2007_grant_awards.htm where you will also find the procedures for submitting proposals are presented, plus notices, schedules, and postings of winning proposals and research results.

2007 Call for Research

The 2007 Call for Research Letters of Intent is now online at DreamScience.org. This call is a Request for Grant Funding Consideration
Offered through a partnership between the DreamScience Foundation^TM and the International Association for the Study of Dreams

See IASD/DreamScience web site for more information and e-mail submission

2006 Grant Money Awarded

12/11/06 Letter from Robert J Hoss, MS, Director of DreamScience Foundation

Hello everyone - on behalf of the Research Grant Committee I am announcing the results of the 2006 IASD/DSF Grant Award effort. We received 17 excellent responses to our call for proposals. The proposals were evaluated by the IASD Research Grant Committee and after a round of questions two proposals were selected for a final submission. In the end both of these finalists were considered equally deserving of the grant so the money was split, each receiving a $2500 grant from IASD. The two awardees were as follows:

1) $2500 award to a Canadian group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta: Ming-Ni Lee, MSc, and Don Kuiken, PhD. "Self-Altering Forms of Awareness in Dreams following Loss and Trauma"

2) $2500 award to Ross Levin - Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, NYC and Gary Fireman - Professor of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA.; "The Relationship between Subjective Sleep Complaints and Disturbed Dreaming to Daily Levels of Stress, Coping and Emotional Regulation"

The INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF DREAMS (IASD) is a nonprofit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. Its purpose is to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information. IASD is open to anyone who studies, explores, or works with dreams. Membership represents about 30 countries and people from all disciplines including: psychology, psychiatry, social work, education at all levels, religious studies, anthropology, medicine, the expressive and performing arts, literature, philosophy, humanities and business. Membership benefits include the professional journal Dreaming and the magazine Dream Time, discounts to conferences plus many on-line benefits. For information on the organization or to become a member please go to the web site: www.asdreams.org

DREAMSCIENCE FOUNDATION^TM The DreamScience Foundation is a private funding institution dedicated to stimulating research in dreams and dreaming. Go to www.dreamscience.org for more information on the organization, its founder and dream studies in general. All funds are privately donated from DreamScience to IASD in support of this granting partnership.

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