John Schulenberg Obituary, Visitation and Funeral, University of Michigan Professor and Researcher
On February 9, 2023, John Schulenberg, a professor in the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychology and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, passed away.
The sudden passing of our friend shocked and saddened his countless colleagues, collaborators, and mentees. We send our condolences to his wife Cathleen and children Clay and Franny.
From 2014 to 2016, Dr. John Schulenberg presided over the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA). He held the position of Associate Director of the Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center and was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (2003-2006 and 2010-2014).
He spent 32 years as a member of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) leadership group.
MTF is a program for integrated epidemiological and etiological research that looks at long-term patterns in substance use attitudes and behaviors among adults and adolescents in the US as well as current prevalence levels.
The National Institute on Drug Addiction has continuously supported the project for almost 50 years, and it is the main repository for national data on historical, developmental, and cohort-related changes in substance use and its correlates.
John worked as the principal investigator from 2017 to 2022 for the MTF Panel Study, which followed longitudinally samples of 12th graders from all throughout the country from ages 18 to 60.
John graduated from The University of Cincinnati with a BA in Psychology in 1979 and from Pennsylvania State University with a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies in 1987. . He had his first academic position at Purdue University’s Department of Child Development and Family Studies as an Assistant Professor of Adolescent Development. In 1991, John relocated to the University of Michigan, where he settled into a research position at the Institute for Social Research, where he worked for the rest of his professional life.
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