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Lauret Savoy was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2024)
Lauret Savoy was awarded the for her book Trace Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (2017)
Lauret Savoy was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017)
Schwartzer JJ, Garcia-Arocena D, Jamal A, Izadi A, Willemsen R, Berman RF. Allopregnanolone Improves Locomotor Activity and Arousal in the Aged CGG Knock-in Mouse Model of Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome. Front Neurosci. 2021 Dec 3;15:752973.
Church J.S., Tamayo J.M., Ashwood P., Schwartzer J.J. (2021) Repeated allergic asthma in early versus late pregnancy differentially impacts offspring brain and behavior development. Brain Behav Immun., 93, 66-79.
Schwartzer J.J., Onore C.E., Rose D.R., Ashwood P. (2017) C57BL/6L bone marrow transplant increases sociability in BTBR T+ Itpr3tf/J mice. Brain Behavior & Immunity. 59:55-61
Ringbauer, H., Shaus, A., et al. (2025) Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08913-3.
Shaus, A., Reich, D. (2025) The Iron II burial cave: Ancient DNA sampling and analysis of uniparental markers. In: I. Finkelstein & T. Römer (Eds.), Kiriath-jearim: The Shmunis Family Excavations (pp. 311-318). Eisenbrauns. https://doi.org/10.5325/jj.28174276.30
Shaus, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Moses, V. C., Reich, D., & McCormick, M. (2025, Nov 19-22), DNA Evidence from the Fall of Nineveh (Halzi Gate) [Conference presentation]. ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting 2025, Boston, MA, United States.
