The Office of the Vice President for Research will award two faculty members with Collegiate Research Professorships for their exceptional scholarly achievements and advanced knowledge in their field.
Inbal Nahum-Shani and Megan Patrick, both faculty affiliates of the Opioid Research Institute, begin their five-year renewable terms of the professorship this fall.
Nahum-Shani is a research professor within the Institute for Social Research and the founder and director of the Data-Science for Dynamic Decision-Making Center, an interdisciplinary data center for scientists developing design methods for adaptive interventions to improve outcomes. Patrick is a research professor and the associate director of faculty affairs at the Institute for Social Research. Her research focuses on the development of substance use and consequences across the lifespan. She is also the principal investigator of the Monitoring the Future Panel Study, a national study that has been following participants from ages 18 to 65 since the mid-1970s.