steve sussman

Steve Sussman is a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychology.
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What kind of research do you conduct?

I engage in tobacco and other drug use prevention and cessation research. While I do a lot of different stuff (some etiology, some program evaluation), I especially enjoy empirical program development work.

In a typical semester, how many undergraduates do you work with? What kind of research activities do the undergraduate students perform?

I teach the HP410 course, Issues in Drug Abuse, to 20-40 students. On occasion, I take on an HP 490 student. Activities could include field observation, data collection, data entry, literature searches, report preparation, and paper preparation.

What are some of your recent undergraduate projects?

The best example is:

Sussman, S., Dent, C.W., & Leu, L.
The one-year prospective prediction of substance abuse and dependence among high-risk adolescents. Journal of Substance Abuse, 12, 373-386, 2000

(Linda Leu published with us as a high-performing undergraduate student.)

To find out more about Dr. Sussman and his research, please visit his homepage.