Heidi Meyer received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. This award will allow Heidi to pursue research related to the mechanisms underlying the development of inhibitory behavior.

Todd F. Heatherton is one of twelve inaugural Fellows selected by Society for Social Neuroscience for their outstanding contribution to the field of social neuroscience.

Dave Bucci was awarded the Pavlovian Research Award at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society (2014), held this year in Seattle, WA. The Pavlovian Research Award is highly prestigious, and awarded for significant research accomplishments. Photo credit: W. J. Wilson.

Land 0' Lakes pledges $2.5 million to establish the endowed Land O' Lakes Chair in Marketing at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; a position to be held by Professor of Excellence in Marketing Kathleen Vohs, a 2000 Psychology and Brain Science PhD graduate....

Alessandro Pizzo has been named a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow. The program is designed to provide neuroscience doctoral trainees with career development and networking opportunities to promote their future success.

Dartmouth researchers demonstrate in a new study that a previously understudied part of the brain, the retrosplenial cortex, is essential for forming the basis for contextual memories, which help you to recall events ranging from global disasters to where you parked your car.

Dr. Travis Todd, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor David Bucci’s laboratory, has received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health entitled “Cortico-hippocampal Contributions to Context and Extinction Learning.”...

Professor Jon Freeman, left, discusses the ramifications of the MouseTracker study with Postdoctoral Researcher Eric Hehman, lead author on the report. A depiction of the software in action is seen on the monitor in the center of the photo. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Kyle Smith, whose lab was awarded 3-year Whitehall Foundation Research Grant.