Brown professor wins stimulus grant

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Brown University professor has received a $560,000 research grant using federal stimulus money to study teen addiction.

The university said Tuesday that Robert Miranda Jr., an assistant professor with the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addition Studies, will test a medication that may help reduce teen marijuana addiction.

The grant through the National Institutes of Health is for the first year of Miranda’s two-year proposal.

The study will begin in mid-June. Miranda expects the participation of about 60 adolescent males and females from the community and local schools.