Drs. Todd Thiele and Montserrat Navarro of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience are co-principal investigators of an R01 grant they received from NIAAA. Proposed experiments will study the role of norepinephrine (NE) circuits arising from the brainstem and innervating “anti-reward” neurocircuitry in the modulation of binge-like ethanol intake and the aversive properties of ethanol in mice. The total award is over $1.7 million over five years.