Initial appointments are for one year with possibility of reappointment for 1 or 2 additional years. Trainees must be available to begin their appointment sometime between March 1 and September 1 of 2001. The Department of Behavioral Science has a long history of providing high quality multidisciplinary research training. The postdoctoral research training program is supported by an NIMH training grant, now in its 21 st consecutive year of funding. Health insurance is also provided.
Additional funds are available to support trainee travel and research-related expenses.
Excellent office space and computing resources are provided all trainees. The University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, a pleasant community of about 250,000 residents with a modest cost of living and a high quality of life. The NIMH postdoctoral research training program is flexible and designed to accommodate the specific research interests and professional goals of trainees. Research trainees select a mentor or mentors from departmental faculty. Faculty in the department represent a range of social and behavioral science disciplines, methodological perspectives, and substantive interests.