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The Secretary of Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania announces the establishment of twelve positions for research in psychiatry and related fields at the WESTERN STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE AND CLINIC, PITTSBURG. At the Institute numerous clinical and teaching activities, the latter in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, have already been initiated. The Institute is the teaching and research hospital of the Pennsylvania mental hospital system which includes twenty-one hospitals and institutions with an average of 40,000 patients where, it is expected, will be trained psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists and others for hospital and private fields. These new positions provide for the appointment of properly qualified senior and junior research workers in psychiatry, internal medicine, biochemistry, neuropathology, neuophysiology and clinical psychology. In some instances research at the Institute will be coördinated with teaching at the University; in such cases the applicant for appointment, and his qualifications, must meet also with the approval of the Dean of the School of Medicine. Interested persons may obtain further information by writing to the Director of the Institute, Grosvenor B. Pearson, M.D., O'Hara and DeSoto Streets, Pittsburgh 13, Pa.