The School of Medicine has published the January edition of the SoM newsletter, featuring a message from Dean Richardson called “Our global community.” The newsletter’s Paper of the Month, "A method for mapping intralocus interactions influencing excessive alcohol drinking," by Tamara J. Phillips, Cheryl Reed, Sue Burkhart-Kasch, Na Li, Robert Hitzemann, Chia-Hua Yu, Lauren L. Brown, Melinda L. Helms, John C. Crabbe and John K. Belknap, was published in the journal Mammalian Genome.