CAS in the News

2012

Two UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies Fellows receive ISBRA President's Awards

Heavy drinking rewires brain, increasing susceptibility to anxiety problems

Imaging study sheds new light on alcohol-related birth defects

Heavy drinking rewires brain, increasing susceptibility to anxiety problems

Imaging Study Sheds New Light on Alcohol-Related Birth Defects

Four new members named to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

2011

President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists

How Does Alcohol Change the Brain? Graduate Student Profile (Buddy Whitman)

Alcohol Workshop Provides Learning Tools for Teachers

Brain Awareness Week Event: “The Brain Lab”

Director Fulton Crews Discusses Adolescent Drinking (ABC news)

Robinson Lab Image Used on Cover of Neuroscience

Kash Receives NARSAD Young Investigator Grant

2010

CAS Predoctoral Student Receives Mentoring Award

Parnell Receives Career Transition Award from NIAAA

Sulik Selected to Present the T.K. Li Plenary Address at RSA

Morrow Appointed Editor for Psychopharmacology Journal

Postdoctoral Fellow O'Leary-Moore Receives RSA Awards

Hodge Receives Faculty Mentoring Award

Crews, Breese and Morrow Receive Professorships

Morrow Appointed to Board of Pharmacological Reviews

“Habits and Cues in Alcohol Drinking: Dynamic Striatal Activity” (Donita Robinson, Ph.D.)

Science 360: The Developing Brain

2009

ABMRF Awards Kash Funding to Study Relapse

Sulik Receives ARRA Funding for Challenge Grant

ARRA Funding Awarded to Robinson

Kathy Sulik Receives Henry Rosett Award

CAS Postdoc Receives Travel Fellowship Award

2008

UNC, Yale partner to study effects of cocaine use on mother-infant relationships (Joey Johns, Ph.D.)

Robinson Awarded Five-Year R01 Grant

Linda Spear Receives 2008 Bowles Lectureship Award

UNC Hodge Lab Study Ties Ending Moderate Drinking to Depression

Thinking Before Drinking

Forever Hung Over

David Overstreet Honored with Excellence Award

2007

New York Times Op-Ed Piece Features Work of Fulton Crews

Bowles Lectureship Award Presented to Richard Olsen

Cindy Ehlers Receives Thurman Award

Crews Receives RSA Distinguished Researcher Award

A. Leslie Morrow Receives New NIAAA grant

Fulton Crews Receives Mark Keller Honorary Award from NIAAA

2006

Bowles Center Researcher Receives K01 Award to Study Ethanol's Discriminative Stimulus Effects

2005

UNC Researchers Awarded a $2.6 Million NIH Grant to Apply Systems Biology Approaches to Studies of Liver Toxicity - September 23, 2005

Kudzu may cut beer craving: Dixie's vine shines in Boston study -- Raleigh News & Observer, May 17, 2005

Study: Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence -- UNC News Service, April 5, 2005

UNC findings may help explain cause of most common movement disorder -- UNC News Service, March 1, 2005