Minority Supplement for Dr. Richard Mulligan

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Recruitment of Individuals From Under-Represented Groups. We have always been very successful recruiting women to our programs with relatively little directed recruitment, i,e., 70% to 80% of Brown's postdoctoral fellows are typically women. Nonetheless, we will monitor our recruitment of female trainees. Our efforts to recruit trainees from under-represented groups are tied to our programs that are committed to maximizing the number of minority applicants. We have had success in recruiting minorities into our training programs. For example, in the past three years, three African-American women joined our programs. Dr. Emma Simmons, a physician and Dr. Georita Frierson, a clinical psychologist, are trainees funded by minority supplements on the R25T transdisciplinary cancer training grant. Andrea Taylor is also completing her predoctoral internship training at Brown. These successes are a result of a number of steps we have taken to increase diversity among our trainees and faculty. We have the support and assistance of Alicia Monroe, M.D., Associate Dean of Medical Minority Affairs, and the administrative assistance of the Office of Minority Medical Affairs, coordinated by Ms. Monika Bolino. For psychology trainees, we advertise in Psych Discourse: the Newsjournat of the Association of Black Psychologists. The Psychology Training Office also contacts the APA Office of Minority Affairs to seek their suggestions and try to identify possible applicants for a more proactive search. We have developed a formal collaborative relationship with graduate program in clinical psychology at Jackson State University, a predominantly black college in Mississippi. As part of this relationship we provide summer training experiences for minority graduate students who are interested in considering a career in research. We advertise our program by letter and brochures, using the infomaational base of the Office of Medical Minority Affairs, to such programs as the Center for Institutional Cooperation, based at the University of Illinois and the Minority and Women Doctoral Directory, Berkeley, California. Programs such as the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program, and Minority Access to Research Careers, that include students who are heading for academic careers, are contacted by Dean Monroe in an effort to inform them of the opportunities available in the University, to stimulate interest in the University through student visits and faculty seminars, and to attract students who may subsequently be candidates for the training program. Finally, to encourage minority applicants to visit Brown for an interview, the DPHB has established a fund of $2000 per year to help defray travel expenses of minority applicants.