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<\/span><\/p>\nIntroduced in 1997, the annual Bowles Lectureship Award honors the best and the brightest in alcohol research. Spear presented a seminar to UNC research faculty and students entitled, “Adolescence: Neurobehavioral Characteristics, Differential Alcohol Sensitivities and Intake.” In addition to an Award plaque, Spear received a $5,000 prize. <\/p>\n
Spear’s research is behavioral neuroscience and focuses on how prenatal drugs such as cocaine and ethanol, along with environmental factors, can influence subsequent behavior. It has provided a critical data resource for policy decisions by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. Her other interests include developmental psychobiology, psychopharmacology, and neurobehavioral teratology. <\/p>\n
Spear joined the Binghamton faculty in 1976, after completing post-doctoral work in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Florida, where she also earned her master’s and PhD. She earned her bachelor’s at Western Illinois University.<\/p>\n
She has been elected president of three prestigious professional organizations and was a member of the newly established Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research of the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"