\n![](\"http:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alcohol\/centerlinenews\/images\/overstreetweb.jpg\") <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n | Judy and David Overstreet with Fulton Crews.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n With 40 years of research and nearly 300 publications under his belt, David H. Overstreet, Ph.D., gave a farewell seminar to family, friends and colleagues in September on the UNC Campus. The seminar marked Overstreet\u2019s retirement after a long and remarkable career in research. He plans to spend most of his newly found free time with family in Arizona and California. Overstreet was presented with a plaque in recognition of a lifetime of research discoveries. Overstreet will continue to collaborate with close colleagues George Breese, Ph.D., and Darin Knapp, Ph.D. on corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) as well as other mediators of anxiety after alcohol withdrawal. He is also finalizing projects with other UNC faculty members on the effects of pregnenolone and oxytocin on alcohol drinking.<\/p>\n Overstreet graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1972, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of California, Irvine. Overstreet joined the Bowles Center and the Department of Psychiatry in 1990.<\/p>\n \u201cDavid Overstreet\u2019s retirement will produce a \u2018vacuum\u2019 for the laboratory. While we will miss his quick wit, we will miss more the major contributions he has made to the successes our laboratory has enjoyed,\u201d said Breese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" |