Professor Earns Position on Study Section for National Institutes of Health
June 30, 2006
By: John Davis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: June 28, 2006
CONTACT: John Davis, john.w.davis@ttu.edu
742-2136
LUBBOCK – A Texas Tech professor has been invited to join a study section responsible
for reviewing grant applications submitted to the Center for Scientific Review at
the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Alice M. Young, a professor of psychology at Texas Tech University and professor
of pharmacology and neuroscience at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,
will serve as a member of the Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning and Ethology Study
Section at the NIH Center for Scientific Review. She begins a four-year term on July
1.
Study sections also make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate
NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their
fields of science.
Members of study sections of the Center for Scientific Review are selected based on
outstanding achievement in their scientific discipline, which entails significant
publications in scientific journals as well as laudable scientific activities and
honors.
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CONTACT: Dr. Alice Young, professor, Department of Psychology, Texas Tech, 742-3711
ext. 252, or alice.young@ttu.edu.