Kenneth J Sher Editor & Author

Rachel P. Winograd, MA, is a graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, where she studies the acute effects of alcohol intoxication on behavior and emotion. She received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health to conduct her dissertation work investigating "drunk personality" and geospatial characteristics of college students' recent drinking episodes. She is part of a program development group creating an evidence-based intervention for heavy drinking college students and has experience working with a range of individuals experiencing alcohol and other substancerelated problems. She is a member of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the American Psychological Association. Kenneth J. Sher, PhD, is Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. He has published extensively on the etiology and course of substance use disorders (particularly alcohol use disorders) in later adolescence and young adulthood, and is the principal investigator on two large longitudinal studies following student drinkers during their college years and beyond. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has received over 20 awards for his teaching, mentorship, and research activities including the Research Society on Alcoholism's Young Investigator Award, Distinguished Researcher Award, and G. Alan Marlatt Mentoring Award, and the American Psychological Association's Division on Addiction's Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award.