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IBG Faculty Fellow Jason Boardman receives the 2020 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement presented by the Population Association of America.

Recent IBG graduate Richard Border won the Dosier/Muenzinger Award for Outstanding Contribution to Basic Research. Richard Border, who was one of IBG's Winter 2019 graduates, was nominated by his mentors Soo Rhee and Matt Keller for this award. They note that Richard is one of the “brightest, most conscientious, most...

Marissa Ehringer, an associate professor in Integrative Physiology and an IBG Faculty Fellow, was named as an Honorable Mention on the list of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program's list of outstanding faculty mentors for 2020.

Congratulations to IBG graduate, Dr. Emma Johnson, who received an Early Career Investigator Award for her presentation on "Genome-wide cross-disorder analyses of schizophrenia and alchohol use disorder" at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Los Angeles.

IBG's Jennifer Keith received the NIDA/NIAAA recognition award for her "exemplary efforts in service of the ABCD Study Consortium." It was presented by George Koob, Director of NIAAA, on behalf of himself and Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA, at the opening of the ABCD annual investigator meeting at UC San...

Dr. Matthew Keller's research bridges behavioral, evolutionary, and statistical genetics to elucidate the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders and individual differences. Over the past two years, he has published 24 peer-reviewed journal articles, many of those in the top journals in his field (Nature Genetics, Nature Human Behavior, Bioinformatics, Annual...

Former IBG graduate student, Robbee Wedow, chosen for Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Award from NIH. The award recognizes his papeer with Faculty Fellow Jason Boardman, former graduate student Brooke Huibregtse, and others: `Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects',...

Dr. Naomi Friedman writes that Alex , who is in the Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics program, has a breadth of work that incorporates many areas of psychology, particularly genetics, cognition, neuroimaging, and clinical psychology. She states, “the level of integration Alex has achieved is one that I would consider...

Dr. Soo Rhee writes that Alta , who is on track to complete her Clinical Ph.D. as well as the IBG Interdisciplinary Certificate Program and the Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods for Behavioral Sciences, has been very active and productive in research in her time at CU. She already has...

Alta du Pont received the P.E.O. Scholar Awards from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. The award is a competitive, merit-based award for women working towards a Ph.D.