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Atkins
Receives Two Federal Grants
Marc
Atkins, Ph.D.,
last week received two federal grants. A three-year NIMH grant for $450,000
will fund Dr. Atkins and colleagues at three other universities seeking
to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the mental health capacity
of schools. The second is a one-year $104,000 grant from the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bureau of Health Professions. This
grant will support interdisciplinary training of child psychology graduate
student through their participation in innovative interdisciplinary programs
during their internship year. The training grant will be directed by Dr.
Atkins and Sybil Madison, Ph.D. The Department's Internship Program in
Clinical Child Psychology was among 20 training programs in the nation
to receive DHHS funding, the first ever awarded by DHHS for training programs.
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