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Administrative & Investigative Cores

Administrative

The Administrative Core of the MCUAAAR provides administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the Center and with other university units and community health service sites.


The significance of the Administrative Core activities rests in the smooth transition that has been made from the previous two MCUAAAR grants to the first year of this grant in which MCUAAAR has made substantial progress in developing the infrastructure necessary to provide important results in the future James Jackson, Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and Peter Lichtenberg, Ph.D. from Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology serve as the Principal Investigators of the grant. The core leaders are responsible for ensuring that the center continues to meet its objectives.

The Core continues to improve the infrastructure, networks and personnel necessary to address the evolving needs of the MCUAAAR; 2) continue to support ongoing and newly funded pilot investigators, 3) and to assist those who have completed their studies in the preparation of grant submissions to the NIH.

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Investigator

The Investigator Development Core identifys, selects, and mentors multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders.

One of the chief aims of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research is to develop junior African American faculty in research skills on African American Elders. The four major activities for this Core are: 1) Conducting a summer training workshop; 2) assisting with individual grants of current and previous pilot investigators; 3) Intensive development activities for junior investigators through the use of pilot studies; 4) The dissemination of research on African American Research Perspectives Robert Taylor, Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and Louis A. Penner, Ph.D. from Wayne State University are the Investigator core leaders. 

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