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Jared Balbona won the Carol Lynch award for best publication in 2021 from an IBG graduate student for his paper Estimation of Parental Effects Using Polygenic Scores in Behavior Genetics .

IBG Trainee Jordan Buck's Ph.D. work on the consequences of maternal nicotine use during pregnancy on epigenetic factors in her offspring and grand offspring is featured in NIDA Notes. See the full story here .

IBG graduate student, Katie Paulich, has her paper on screen time and children's outcomes, using the ABCD Study, featured in CU Boulder today and on Fox 31 Denver .

IBG graduate student Pamela Romero Villela was recently interviewed by the Graduate and Professional Student Government for a Research Excellence Spotlight. Read the full interview here .

Recent IBG graduate, Evan Winiger, won the Rowe award for best poster presentation by an Associate Member at this year's meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association for his poster: "Genetic Identification of Sleep Vulnerabilities Inherited with Substance Use". Dr. Winiger is now a postdoctoral fellow with the Development of Psychopathology,...

A generous gift from Prof. Robert Lynch and the late Prof. and Vice Chancellor Carol Becker Lynch has established the Carol Becker Lynch Endowed Graduate Research Fund to provide support of various kinds for our graduate research training programs and for the cultural and educational mission of the Institute for...

IBG graduate Evan Winiger's (Ph.D. Psychology and Neuroscience, 2021) dissertation research on the relationship between marijuana use and sleep is discussed in an article in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine.

IBG Research Associate Nomita Chhabildas received the Anne K Heinz Staff Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement.

Congratulations to IBG student Pamela Romero-Villela for winning the Graduate & Professional Student Government award for graduate excellence in research for the 2020-2021 academic year.

A special issue of the journal Behavior Genetics highlights the contributions of the The International Workshop on Statistical Genetic Methods for Human Complex Traits which has been mostly hosted by IBG over the last 30+ years. The issue includes articles by IBG students, post-docs, and faculty including Jared Balbona ,...