Departmental Spotlight - Welcome Dr. Cole!

We would like to welcome Dr. Jennifer Cole, Ph.D as a new faculty member with the Department of Behavioral Science with an appointment at the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. Her research interests are in the areas of substance use/abuse, violence against women, in particular sexual victimization, and community responses to sexual assault victims, with particular attention to community responses to victims of substance-involved sexual violence. Dr. Cole is a Co-Investigator of an evaluation study of state funded substance abuse treatment programs. She is also a Co-Investigator for a statewide evaluation of a program serving children with severe emotional and behavioral disturbance. She has previously worked on a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) studying alcohol, violence, mental health and health status among rural and urban women with protective orders, and a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study of victimization, substance use, and HIV risk among crack cocaine users. Please help us welcome her to our team!