Please have your transcripts emailed to:

DPRG@ucdenver.edu

OR

Mailed directly to:

1890 North Revere Ct.
Floor 5, Mailstop F546
Aurora, CO 80045

Faculty Mentor Information

Which faculty member do you wish to serve as your mentor? If you have identified a secondary mentor, you should also list them here. 

Before applying, you must contact your mentor (contact info on the "Training Faculty/Postdocs" tab of the DPRG T32 website) to ensure they will be available to sponsor you; faculty are also to be involved in the preparation of your research goals. Note that primary mentors cannot be chosen from the affiliate faculty list. Secondary mentors may be faculty or affiliate faculty members.

Goals Statement:

Please attach a response to each of the following 5 questions (total length for all 5 responses cannot exceed 3 pages - minimum 11 Arial font and 0.5” margins on all four sides). You should be working with your potential mentor to complete these responses.

1) What are your career goals?

2) Why are you choosing to apply to the University of Colorado DPRG program? Why did you choose to apply to work with this specific mentor(s)?

We have found that the DPRG post-doctoral training program is most successful when fellows enter with a plan which includes concurrent training plans in three areas:

1. Dissemination: What data will you analyze, write-up, and submit within the first year of the fellowship? (This is often data which has already been collected either by you or your proposed mentor(s) which you could analyze.)

2. Skills: What skills will you focus on mastering in the first year of the fellowship and how will you master them? (This often means joining ongoing projects where you gain on-the-job skills training.)

3. What will your plan to develop an independent project be? (Please include as much information as possible about the project, how you will attempt to find funding for the project, and a timeline geared towards completing and disseminating project results within the two-year fellowship. This should be developed by discussion with your proposed mentor)

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Strategic Research Priorities:

This is an NIMH-funded postdoctoral research training program. NIMH prefers to support trainees focused on developing careers relevant to the mission of NIMH as laid out in the NIMH strategic plan. Please review the NIMH research priorities listed below and work with your proposed mentor to identify how your training plan and proposed research area relates to the NIMH strategic plan.

Indicate below which of the priorities your research meets, and explain how it relates.

Names, titles, institution, contact phone number and email addresses of three persons you will contact to submit letters of recommendation (other than your proposed sponsor). Request that the letter-writers meet the December 1st deadline; no late letters will be accepted.

These should be addressed to:

Angel Tran, Postdoc Fellowship Coordinator, and emailed to DPRG@ucdenver.edu NO LATER than December 1, 2022

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM

This program is funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). The categories and questions below represent NIH demographic categories and groups underrepresented in health-related sciences. We are collecting this information for the purposes of reporting to the NIH. The information collected on this page will not be considered in the evaluation of your application and will not be disclosed unless you choose to disclose this in other areas of your application.

Definitions (as per NIH):

American Indian or Alaskan Native. (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North, Central, or South America, and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.)
Asian. (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.)
Black or African America. (A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Terms such as “Haitian” or “Negro” can be used in addition to “Black” or African American.”)
Hispanic or Latino. (A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. The term, "Spanish origin," can be used in addition to "Hispanic or Latino.)          
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.)
White. (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.)

DISABILITY
A disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, as described in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (https://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm#12102).

DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND:

Individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, defined as those who meet two or more of the following criteria (as per NIH):

1. Were or currently are homeless, as defined by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Definition: https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento/);
2. Were or currently are in the foster care system, as defined by the Administration for Children and Families (Definition: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/focus-areas/foster-care);
3. Were eligible for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program for two or more years (Definition: https://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/income-eligibility-guidelines);
4. Have/had no parents or legal guardians who completed a bachelor’s degree (see https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018009.pdf);
5. Were or currently are eligible for Federal Pell grants (Definition: https://www2.ed.gov/programs/fpg/eligibility.html);
6. Received support from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as a parent or child (Definition: https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-eligibility-requirements).
7. Grew up in one of the following areas: a) a U.S. rural area, as designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer (https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/rural-health), or b) a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-designated Low-Income and Health Professional Shortage Areas  (qualifying zipcodes are included in the file). Only one of the two possibilities in #7 can be used as a criterion for the disadvantaged background definition.