The Center for Childhood Obesity Research
Childhood Obesity Prevention Training (COPT) Program Seeks Graduate Student Applicants for Fall 2012 Admission
COPT is an interdisciplinary doctoral graduate training program supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Grant no. 2011-67001-30117 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area. The COPT.program involves collaboration among several units in the College of Health and Human Development, including the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, the Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Center for Childhood Obesity Research, the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, and the Methodology Center.
COPT’s mission is to prepare a new generation of scientists to address the childhood obesity epidemic. The program will provide transdisciplinary graduate education, integrating training in human development and family studies and nutritional sciences with prevention research and statistical methodology.
Recruitment is now underway for a second cohort of graduate students, who will begin the program in the fall of the 2012-13 academic year. We are currently seeking well-qualified and highly motivated applicants for the program. Completion of the program requirements will lead to a Ph.D. degree in either Human Development and Family Studies or Nutritional Sciences. Students admitted to the program will receive COPT Graduate Training Fellowships paying full tuition and stipends.
Students interested in the program should request admission by applying for graduate admission through the standard Penn State application process, indicating either “Nutritional Sciences” or “Human Development and Family Studies” as their program of interest. Admission to either the graduate program in Nutritional Sciences or Human Development and Family Studies is required, as is identification of a primary faculty mentor with an appointment in one of these two departments.
Questions about this special graduate training opportunity may be directed to:
Lorraine Mulfinger, Ph.D.
Associate Program Director
814-865-7787
LXM14@psu.edu
The Penn State graduate admissions website is: gradsch.psu.edu/portal.
1 This program is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Grant no. 2011-67001-30117 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area.
