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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 .

John Hewitt , IBG Director, received the 2016 James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research. The award is from the International Society for Twin Studies and was presented at the joint banquet with the Behavior Genetics Association in Brisbane, Australia, June 23rd 2016.

Congratulations to Tom Johnson on receiving the 2016 Outstanding Career Achievement Award of the International Dose Response Society. Information about this award can be found at: http://dose-response.org/awards/ .

April 2016 - Graduate student Dan Gustavson, mentored by Naomi Friedman and Akira Miyake , has been awarded the 2016 Dozier Award for Basic Research by the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience for the best doctoral dissertation presented.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Matt Keller who received The 2012 Behavior Genetics Association's Fuller and Scott Early Career Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding scientific accomplishments by a member who is early in their career. Matt earned this award based on his groundbreaking evolutionary and statistical genetic studies of behavior...

At this year's meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association, the Fulker Award for best paper published in the journal Behavior Genetics during 2010 was presented to IBG Faculty Fellow, Matt Keller (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience), Sarah Medland of the Queensland Institute for Medical Research, and Laramie Duncan, a...

Congratulations to Melissa Munn-Chernoff and her mentor, Mike Stallings , on Melissa's being named co-recipient of the 2011 Dozier Award for the most outstanding graduate student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Melissa successfully defended her thesis on `Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Disordered Eating and Co-Occurring Traits'...

Tom Johnson has won the American Aging Association's 2010 Denham Harman Research Award for lifetime achievement in research. Established in 1978 this award was named in honor of Dr. Denham Harman, a co-founder of the American Aging Association and honors a person who has made significant contributions to biomedical aging...

John Hewitt received this year's faculty research award from Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the department's commencement ceremony on May 6th, 2010.

Jay Schulz-Heik is the recipient of the Dozier Award for the best graduate student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Jay is supervised by Soo Rhee in the clinical and behavior genetics programs and is currently an intern at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center.