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 | Addictions |  | | | | | Institution/Organization: | University of Missouri-Columbia | | Job Location: | Missouri, U.S.A. | | Job Type: | Tenure-Track | | Contact Person: | Bettencourt | | Date Posted: | October 31st, 1999 | | | | |  |  | |
THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA (MU) is inviting applications for five tenure-track positions in the area of ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS. The hires represent an institutional effort to establish one of the nation's preeminent research collaborations on the biobehavioral and psychosocial determinants of addiction and substance abuse and form the foundation for a premiere predoctoral and postdoctoral program in addictions from behavioral and social science perspectives. New faculty will be joining an already established group of addictions researchers affiliated with both the Department of Psychology (Lynne Cooper, Ken Sher, Wendy Slutske, Tim Trull, Phil Wood)and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (Dan Longo and Dan Vinson). As part of the same institutional initiative, the Department of Family and Community Medicine will also be adding two new lines in the next two years. The MU psychology addictions researchers are part of the new, NIAAA-funded Missouri Alcohol Research Center (MARC) directed by Andrew Heath at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) and involving collaborators from WUSM, St. Louis University, the Palo Alto VA Medical Center, and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. The MARC provides exciting new research opportunities in topics relevant to developmental aspects of addiction, addiction and family processes, the genetic epidemiology of alcoholism, mechanisms of comorbidity, quantitative methodology, and psychophysiology.
We are especially interested in individuals with interests in five areas. Rank is open. Both junior and senior candidates can be considered for any position but more senior applicants must demonstrate a strong record of external support. (1) a treatment-outcomes researcher, (2) a cognitive or affective neuroscientist with expertise in the functional imaging of drug effects and/or vulnerability to addiction, (3) a cognitive/social/affective researcher with expertise in decision-making, motivation, and personality issues surrounding substance use and dependence, (4) a quantitative psychologist with substantive interests in the addictions and (5) a developmental psychologist with interests in the precursors of substance use disorders or in developmental aspects of addiction (e.g., the consequences of substance involvement on adolescent and adult development). The primary criteria for filling the positions are demonstrated scholarly excellence and potential for securing extramural funding. To apply, send vita, up to five representative reprints, a cover letter that reviews your research program and teaching interests, and three letters of reference to: Chair, Addictions Search Committee, Department of Psychology, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211. Inquiries can be made to Ken Sher, (573) 882-4279, Email: SherK@missouri.edu. We will begin screening applications in October 1999, and anticipate interviewing as early as
December with an anticipated start date of August 2000. The University of Missouri does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability, status as disabled veteran, or veteran of Vietnam era.
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