National Hispanic Science Network
18th Annual International Conference
October 3-5, 2018
Rockville, MD

The National Hispanic Science Network’s Eighteenth Annual International Conference will take place Wednesday, October 3, 2018 through Friday October 5, 2018 in Rockville, MD.  Planning and programming are underway!  Stay tuned for information about the 2018 conference.  

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CSUSM Professor Receives 2017 Wang Family Excellence Award

California State University San Marcos psychology professor Keith Trujillo has been recognized with the prestigious 2017 Wang Family Excellence Award in the category of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Service. The California State University’s Board of Trustees will honor Trujillo at its Jan. 31 meeting in Long Beach.

500_trujillomugcroppedThe annual Wang Family Excellence Award recognizes four outstanding faculty members and one outstanding staff member from the California State University system who, through extraordinary commitment and dedication, have distinguished themselves by exemplary contributions and achievements. Their activities advance the CSU’s mission and enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Each recipient is given a $20,000 award.

“It’s an incredible honor,” Trujillo said. “I work with some extraordinary people here at Cal State San Marcos and in the entire California State University system, and this award could have gone to any number of people who are deserving. So, I feel this is more of a recognition of the work we all do, rather than an individual award.”

The Wang Family Excellence Award is the latest in a long list of honors for Trujillo. In 2001, he earned CSUSM’s President’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity. Among the numerous recognitions since then is the National Award of Excellence in Mentorship from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse; the Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society of Neuroscience; and the National Award for Research from the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse.

Trujillo’s areas of specialization are psychopharmacology and neuroscience, and his current research focuses on the behavioral and neurobiological effects of psychoactive drugs.

Trujillo has trained scores of first-generation college students in his psychopharmacology laboratory at CSUSM, with more than half of them transitioning to Ph.D. programs at some of the most prestigious universities in the country.

He mentors scientists from disadvantaged groups nationwide as co-director and principal investigator of a prestigious National Institute of Mental Health summer program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts. And he serves as director of the CSUSM Office for Training, Research and Education in the Sciences, which has recruited, trained and mentored more than 600 students in STEM fields over the past decade.

Press Release | By Eric Breier
 

NEWS AND EVENTS

Developing scientists in Hispanic substance use and health disparities research through the creation of a national mentoring network

Angela Bazzi, Cristina Mogro-Wilson, Nalini Junko Negi, Jennifer Reingle Gonzalez, Miguel Angel Cano, Yessenia Castro & Alice Cepeda 

Vacant Position

Open Rank Faculty Position in Life Sciences, University of California Los Angeles

Building on a successful multiyear initiative to hire leading research scientists with a strong commitment to promoting the success of underrepresented students, the Division of Life Sciences in the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences announces an open rank faculty position with Academic Senate appointment in one of the departments of Life Sciences.  See Announcement.

Assistant Professor, Mental Health Promotion in Schools

The Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences is seeking an additional tenure-line assistant-rank faculty member for our highly-ranked School Psychology program. The right candidate has scholarly expertise in the area of mental health promotion; social emotional learning; and/or developmental psychopathology. We are especially interested in a scholar with a record of extramural funding whose research is complementary to our strengths in prevention and intervention for school-aged children and families. The appointment will begin September 16, 2019.

The College of Education at the UO has a strong tradition of scholarship, outreach, and impact at local, state, national, and global levels. The College is a community of scholars devoted to excellence and creating a learning and research environment that seeks diverse perspectives, demands equity, and fosters inclusion. It is home to a dozen research and outreach units, two training clinics – including the HEDCO Clinic, and a highly productive faculty who are national and international leaders in prevention science, school-based intervention, research methods, and measurement designed to improve the lives of children and families.

College of Education graduate programs are some of the highest ranked in the country for both research scholarship and graduate education, including the School Leadership Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, and Special Education Programs.  Faculty are dedicated to enhancing multicultural competencies, promoting social justice, and promoting education and prevention sciences and practices. 

For full position description and application information, please visit our website.

EO/AA/Veterans/Disability institution committed to cultural diversity

Assistant Professor of Couples and Family Therapy

The Department of Counseling Psychology is actively recruiting a tenure-line assistant professor. The ideal candidate will have rigorous research experience and/or a trajectory with the potential for obtaining external research funding. Preference is given to candidates with strong multicultural competencies and dedication to enhancing equity and social justice, and who will contribute to one or more of our accredited undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs.  The appointment will begin September 16, 2019.

For full position description and application information, please visit our website.

EO/AA/Veterans/Disability institution committed to cultural diversity

Julie and Keith Thomson Faculty Chair and HEDCO Clinic Director, Associate Professor or Advanced Assistant Professor

 The University of Oregon’s College of Education (COE) is hiring a tenure-line associate or assistant professor to serve as Julie and Keith Thomson Chair and inaugural Director of the HEDCO Clinic. The ideal candidate will have experience in a leadership role related to research as well as service delivery in a clinical setting such as a university-based clinic, VA or research hospital.  The right person for this role will possess the leadership, clinical, and research skills needed to bring our HEDCO Clinic to the highest levels of accomplishment.

The College of Education at the UO has a strong tradition of scholarship, outreach, and impact at local, state, national, and global levels. The College is a community of scholars devoted to excellence and creating a learning and research environment that seeks diverse perspectives, demands equity, and fosters inclusion. It is home to a dozen research and outreach units, two training clinics – including the HEDCO Clinic, and a highly productive faculty who are national and international leaders in prevention science, school-based intervention, research methods, and measurement designed to improve the lives of children and families.

College of Education graduate programs are some of the highest ranked in the country for both research scholarship and graduate education, including the School Leadership Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, and Special Education Programs.  Faculty are dedicated to enhancing multicultural competencies, promoting social justice, and promoting education and prevention sciences and practices. 

For full position description and application information, please visit our website.

EO/AA/Veterans/Disability institution committed to cultural diversity

Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor Level in Social Psychology

The Department of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach announces a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in Fall 2019 in Social Psychology. Requirements include a Ph.D. in Social Psychology or related discipline, evidence of teaching at the college level, an active program of research, and peer-reviewed publications. Duties include teaching in the specialty area, conducting research that incorporates students, and service. For the complete position description with the details on Minimum and Desired Qualifications, Duties, Required Documentation, etc., please see https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11725

Application review will begin on October 1, 2018.

Tenure Track or Early Career/Tenure-Eligible Investigator, Cell and Development Biology Center

Division of Intramural Research (DIR) of the National Heart, Lunch and Blood Institute (NIH) is seeing an outstanding scientist to initiate and direct an independent research program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.  See Announcement.

Interdisciplinary Addiction Research in Biobehavioral Health with Health Disparities

The Department of Biobehavioral Health in the College of Health and Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University invites applications for an open rank, tenured/tenure track addiction research faculty member.  See Announcement. 

Assistant Professor-Pscyhology (tenure track) with expertise in Clinical Psychology, California State University San Marcos

California State University San Marcos has an opening for Assistant Professor-Psychology (tenure) track with expertise in Clinical Psychology beginning August 2019.  Minimum qualifications:  PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology from an APA-accredited clinical training program; evidence of active research program that can involve students; demonstrated evidence of teaching excellence and qualified to supervise Masters theses.  Preferred qualifications: evidence of research productivity; experience working with students from diverse backgrounds.  Deadline to assure full consideration is October 1, 2018.  See Announcement.

Postdoctoral Fellowships Graduate Research Training in Alcohol Problems; Alcohol-Related Disparities

University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health and The Alcohol Research Group is currently accepting applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for research training in alcohol studies.  See Announcement.

Section Chief Postion at CICAD (The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission)

The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) position on drug Demand Reduction is open for applicants.  This is a section chief position at CICAD.  See Announcement.

Department of Physiology: LSU Health – New Orleans

The Department of Physiology in the School of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, LA seeks outstanding candidates with a PhD or equivalent degree for a tenure track faculty position at the assistant to full professor level. Special consideration will be given to candidates with significant extramural funding and research strengths in cardiovascular physiology or alcohol-related pathophysiology. Click here for more Info