We are pleased to announce that three Behavioral Neuroscience PhD graduate students - Megan Herting, James Stafford, and Allison Anacker - are now independently-funded researchers.  They recently received notification of grant award for the following NIH-NRSA (F31) applications:

• Megan Herting: Exercise and hippocampal structure and function in adolescents
• James Stafford: Behavioral and molecular analysis of chromatin modifications in memory retrieval
• Allison Anacker: Socially-facilitated excessive alcohol drinking in a novel prairie vole model

Congratulations Megan, James, & Allison!

Dr. Ruth L. Kirchstein, for whom the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) is named, passed away on October 6, 2009.  Aside from Dr. Kirschstein's scientific accomplishments in polio vaccine development, and becoming the first woman director of an NIH Institute, she was a champion of research training and a strong advocate for the inclusion of underrepresented individuals in the scientific workforce. More on Dr. Kirschtein's life can be found at: http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/RuthKirschstein.