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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.

Congratulations to IBG lab assistant and Fairview High student, Anuradha Prakash, who won first place in the Animal Science category at the Corden Pharma Science Fair, and won the Regional Special Award from the American Statistical Association. She advances to state competition!

Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology and IBG Faculty Fellow, Matt McQueen, received the 2018 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for leadership and service: "Through his research at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at CU Boulder, he started studying addiction, impulsivity and disinhibition. He also directs the Public Health Program and Epidemiology Laboratory."

IBG Faculty Fellow, Scott Vrieze , won the 2018 Fuller and Scott Award for outstanding scientific accomplishments by an early career member of the Behavior Genetics Association.

IBG graduate student, Spencer Huggett , won the 2018 Rowe Award for the best poster presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting. Spencer Huggett & Michael Stallings, Cocaine'omics: The Genetic and Neurological Basis of Cocaine Use and Dependence .