CSDE Affiliate Hyungmin Cha (Sociology) was named a UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Awardee in its January 2026 round. RRF will fund Cha to pursue research on homelessness as a life course health risk. Cha will merge the HRS Life History data, the core HRS survey data, and the HRS biomarker/epigenetic aging data to generate nationally representative estimates of the health consequences of homelessness experiences. The UW RRF is a competitive research award program that advance new directions in faculty research and contribute in substantive ways to the health, creativity, and productivity of the research ecosystem.