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Congratulations
Cody Siciliano, PhD on receiving the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund research award
Cody Siciliano, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 research award from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund to support his studies of the neural substrates of memory.

Carrie Jones, PhD
named as 2020 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2020 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise.

Congratulations
Kim Thibeault of the Calipari Lab on being awarded an NIDA F31 for
"Defining the neural ensembles of cocaine addiction"

Congratulations Kellie Williford of the Winder Lab for being awarded an NINDS DSPAN F99/K00 for
"The BNST PKCdelta Roles in Affective Behavior"

Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter
to serve on
NIAAA's National Advisory Council
The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary, HHS; the Director, NIH; and the Director, NIAAA; on research program and policy matters in the field of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

VCAR Virtual Exhibit
Spring 2020-ArtLab Student Project Virtual Exhibit
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ArtLab- Exploring the intersection of art and science at Vanderbilt

Congratulations
Suzanne Nolan of the Siciliano and Calipari Labs on being awarded a NIDA F32 for
"Defining the role of compartment-specific
dopamine dynamics in
reinforcement learning"

Congratulations
Jennifer Zachry of the Calipari Lab on being awarded a NIDA F31 for
"Neural control of Reinforcement Learning in SUD"
