Dr. Hayley Treloar Padovano recently received notice that she is receiving the Early Career Investigator Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism. This award is given to an individual who has demonstrated themselves to be a motivated thinker and a leader at a young stage in their academic career. Dr.

Dr. Kelli Scott recently hosted the Addiction Science Journal Club’s first Twitter Chat discussing her manuscript, “Health Professional Stigma as a Barrier to Contingency Management Implementation in Opioid Treatment Programs” on Friday, March 12th. The study was funded by an Opioids COBRE awarded to Dr.

Dr. Jennifer Merrill to receive an Early Career Research Achievement Award from Brown University! In recognition of high-impact research and fundamental discoveries, the University will celebrate the work of six researchers with achievement awards presented at this spring’s 2021 Celebration of Research in May. 

Dr. Nathan Kearns recently gave an invited lecture  on contextuality and substance-impaired driving at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) on March 18th. 

Dr. Angela Stevens recently authored a paper on alcohol and cannabis co-use, "Nuanced relations between simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use motives and negative consequences among college students: The role of multiple product use" published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Dr. Benjamin Berey, CAAS Postdoctoral Fellow, is a Registration Award Winner for the APA Division 50 Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Conference 2021 that Dr. Liz Aston is serving on as a co-chair. Dr. Berey received this award for his research on the similarities and differences in preferences and use patterns among recreational and medical cannabis users.

In January, Dr. Patricia Cioe was first author for the manuscript, "Personalized feedback improves cardiovascular risk perception and physical activity levels in persons with HIV: results of a pilot randomized clinical trial" in AIDS Care Journal.

Meghan Gonsalves, ScM, current Neuroscience PhD student in Dr. Tara White's White Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, recently co-authored a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology titled, "Development of a cognitive bias modification intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care" on February 25th, 2021.