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University of Michigan Addiction Research Center and Development, Psychopathology and Mental Health Certificate Program NIAAA Multidisciplinary Alcoholism Research Training Program for Predoctoral Fellows (7/1/2003-6/30/2008) Effective July 1, 2003, funding has been awarded for two Development, Psychopathology and Mental Health (DPMH) slots a year for NIH trainees (stipend is $20,772 per year, a modest amount for trainee travel, tuition when needed, health benefits, and a small amount for dissertation research costs). Trainees need to be in the DPMH program, mentored by a DPMH faculty member, and have a content commitment to do their dissertation on a research topic that has a component involving an alcohol question (may be developmental, clinical, etiological, tied to conduct problems, stress, gender differences, etc.). (Note that these are not RAs, but NRSA fellowships, and assuming satisfactory performance, will be awarded for two years, to advanced students ready to actively commence their dissertation work). The DPMH Program's focus on interdisciplinary, developmental, and longitudinal inquiry provides an integrative structure around which significant developmental and psychopathological problems may be explored. Given the embededness of alcohol use in all phases of the life cycle, a variety of more general developmental inquiries are linked easily to the program requirement of some alcohol content focus. Aside from the research commitment, the only other requirement of the program is that fellows attend designated coursework which will provide them with a solid grounding in current issues in substance abuse, research methodology and statistics, protection of human subjects, and the responsible conduct of research. Fellows complete a web-based research responsibility training called PEERRS. Fellows attend quarterly UMARC Fellow meetings and monthly research seminars, pertinent UM Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC) seminars and interdisciplinary lectures, and Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Nominations from faculty for potential candidates, or by candidates themselves, currently are being solicited. The nomination should include: (a) the DPMH mentor(s), (b) a brief (2-3 paragraph) statement about the research problem, (c) a summary of the student's progress to the degree, and (d) a current CV. Send nominations to: Robert A. Zucker, Ph.D.,
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