Grants and Fellowships
| Jul 2018–Jun 2020 | Co-Principal Investigator, NIMH R21MH115680. “Visualization of oxytocin receptor for translational social neuroscience. ($275,000). UC-Davis. |
| Jul 2017–Apr 2022 | Co-Investigator, NICHD R01HD092055. “The neural basis of pair-bonding in female titi monkeys” ($2,905,809). UC-Davis. |
| Sep 2015–Jun 2017 | Co-Investigator, NIMH R21MH110014, “Characterization of oxytocin receptors in autism spectrum disorder” ($220,839). UC-Davis. |
| February 2012 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Curriculum Development Scholar. This fellowship provides extra stipend support ($6,000), as well as intensive training, curriculum development workshops, and a teaching project. Emory University. |
| January 2012 | Dean’s Teaching Fellowship recipient; competitive fellowship ($18,000) that requires the fellow to teach one 4-credit class of their own design not currently reflected in the undergraduate curriculum and to defend PhD within fellowship year. Emory University. |
| April 2010 | Trainee on NIMH R21MH90776. “Development of a Novel PET Ligand for Detecting Oxytocin Receptors in Brain.” Awarded to PI Larry Young; predoctoral thesis support for Sara Freeman and postdoctoral thesis support for Aaron Smith. Emory University. |
| Aug 2009–May 2012 | Appointed trainee on NIMH 2T32MH073525-06: Integrated Training in Psychobiology & Psychopathology training grant; provided 2-3 years of stipend support ($18,000/yr) plus travel funds. Emory University. |
Awards
| Sept 2019 | My postdoc lab won the Lab Safety Award ($,5000) for best lab safety at UC-Davis for 2018-2019. I served as one of the lab safety officers and the radiation safety officer. |
| May 2017 | Winner, Best Talk by a Postdoctoral Researcher, Annual Psychology Department Conference, UC-Davis ($75). |
| Apr 2017 | Winner, 2017 UC-Davis Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research ($1,000). |
| Apr 2017 | Runner up, Best Talk, 3rd Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium, UC-Davis ($100). |
| May 2016 | Recipient of the 2016 Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Excellence Award for the Division of Social Sciences at UC-Davis ($1,000). |
| May 2016 | Finalist, 2016 UC-Davis Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research. |
| August 2015 | Travel Award Recipient, Postdoctoral Scholars Association, UC-Davis ($400). Provided financial support to attend the 11th World Congress on Neurohypophyseal Hormones in Queenstown, New Zealand (Aug 29-Sept 1, 2015) |
| May 2015 | Best Talk Winner, Postdoctoral Research Symposium, University of California-Davis ($500). |
| March 2015 | Finalist, iBiology Young Scientist Seminar Series. |
| February 2013 |  Crystal Apple Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching. This award was previously only available to professors, but the selection committee made a new category for me as a graduate student based on the nominations from my students. Here is an article about the 2013 awards. |
| February 2011 | Travel award recipient from the exchange program between the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN; Atlanta) and the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB; Indiana University); provided travel funds to attend the annual Animal Behavior conference at Indiana University in April 2011. |
Sara M. Freeman, PhD 