The latest round of federal Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) winners will use their three-year grants--ranging from $96,000 to $200,000--to support trainee stipends, faculty and curriculum development and create new interdisciplinary training programs targeting underserved communities. The federal Bureau of Health Professions launched GPE in 2002 to support training of health-service psychologists to work with children, older adults, victims of abuse, the chronically ill, people with disabilities and other such underserved populations.

"As the first federal program targeted to the training of health service psychologists, GPE is especially important for the recognition in policy of psychology as a health profession and the training of psychologists as a public good," said Cynthia Belar, PhD, executive director of APA's Education Directorate.

The four newest programs to receive GPE funding and the program directors for each are:

Boston Medical Center Corp.: Kermit Crawford, PhD
New Mexico State University: Eve Adams, PhD
Finch University of Health Sciences: Catherine Campbell, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center: Joseph Evans, PhD

Previous grantees that received renewed GPE funding are:
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, School of Physical Therapy: Bradley Hudson, PsyD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center: Hal Lewis, PhD
Yale University: Robert Casey, PhD
Howard University: Linda Berg-Cross, PhD
University of Florida: Russell Bauer, PhD
Alfred I. DuPont Institute: W. Douglas Tynan, PhD
Medical College of Georgia, Research Institute Inc.: Paul Mabe, PhD
La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center: Cathy Mavrolas, PhD
University of Louisville Research Foundation: Janet Woodruff-Borden, PhD
University of Missouri-Columbia: George "Brick" Johnstone, PhD
St. Louis University: Terri Weaver, PhD
University of Rochester Medical Center: Deborah King, PhD
University of North Dakota: Cindy Juntunen, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Thomas Power, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina: Dean Kilpatrick, PhD
Texas Tech University: Gary Fireman, PhD

In 2003, seven GPE grants were also awarded solely for geropsychology training. For more information on GPE, visit www.apa.org/ppo/edppo.html.

--M. DITTMANN