Faculty Affiliate, The Methodology Center
Research Associate, Alcohol and Skin Cancer Projects
Prevention Research Center
Penn State
A common theme throughout much of Dr. Cleveland's research is the appropriate application of advanced statistical methods to substance use prevention research. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the PAMT program, mentored by Linda Collins with a focus on latent class and latent transition analysis. He is currently an investigator on Stephanie Lanza’s component of the Methodology Center’s NIDA-funded P50 Center grant. This collaboration has resulted in a paper in The Psychology of Addictive Behaviors that used latent transition analysis to examine patterns of alcohol use during the transition to the first semester of college among a sample of matriculating college students (Cleveland, Lanza, Ray, Turrisi, & Mallett, 2011).