Kristina Jackson presented a talk entitled "Alternate Representations of Subjective Effects: An Ecological Study of Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use" as part of the symposium "Novel Technologies and Integrated Approaches for Obtaining and Using Real-time Alcohol Consumption Data Collected in Naturalistic Environments" at the 19th Congress of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA2018) in Kyoto Japan.

Kate Carey received a 4-year R01 from NIAAA, titled "Using Counter Attitudinal Advocacy to Change Drinking Behavior." Collaborators and co-PIs are Angelo DiBello, former CAAS post-doc, now in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College, and Clayton Neighbors, in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston. This project is a two-site study (Brown and Houston) testing the comparative efficacy of two types of brief alcohol interventions for heavy drinking college students.