UAA research center receives $1 million grant.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: GRANTS

A University of Alaska Anchorage's Arctic Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Training Center received a three-year, $1 million Centers for Disease Control grant to train health care professionals and students about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Dr. Christiane Brems, a UAA professor of psychology and co-director of Behavioral Health Research and Services leads the UAA project, which began operating Sept. 30. The prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum...