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Alumni/Alumnae Achievement Award
Congratulations to the 2009 GSAS Alumni/Alumnae Achievement Award recipient, Sarah Fryer Leibowitz (WSC '64, GSAS '68) who will be honored at the Dean’s Luncheon that is part of NYU Alumni Day on October 3, 2009.
 Dr. Sarah F. Leibowitz is an associate professor at The Rockefeller University in New York, where she heads the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology. In her laboratory, which she has directed for forty years, she has pursued a multidisciplinary research program to identify and characterize the neurobiological mechanisms that mediate consummatory behavior. She supervises research projects and theses of post-doctoral, graduate, medical and undergraduate students, and her laboratory research has been continuously funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, private foundations, and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Leibowitz has written widely, having published over two hundred original articles in scientific journals and sixty review articles or book chapters. She has lectured throughout the world and is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Behavioral Neurobiology.
Dr. Leibowitz studies neurochemical and neuroendocrine systems that control different behavioral processes, including eating behavior, alcohol intake, and drug abuse. In her recent work, she has demonstrated how food and alcohol, when consumed during pregnancy, can have profound impact on the development of these neural systems in the embryo, permanently altering the behavior of the offspring throughout life. She is investigating these mechanisms to understand the pathologies that are causally related to eating disorders, obesity, and addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Dr. Leibowitz has served on numerous committees, Editorial Advisory Boards, and Board of Directors of different scientific organizations. She has received numerous honors and awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship Award and Grass Traveling Scientist of the Society for Neuroscience, and she has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and American Psychological Society. She is a member of the President’s Council of the International Behavioral Neuroscience society, the Human Rights of Scientists Committee at the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Member-at-Large of the AAAS Neuroscience Section. Her professional society memberships include the Endocrine Society, Society for Neuroscience, New York Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Association, North American Association for Study of Obesity, and Society for the Study of Ingestion Behavior.
Dr. Leibowitz is also a classical pianist, having studied at the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music in New York and trained at the Akademie fur Musik in Vienna until eventually pursuing the sciences. She has been affiliated with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and recently performed Sidney Homer’s piano trio at an Orpheus gala concert in April 2009.
Dr. Leibowitz holds a B.A. in Psychobiology from Washington Square College and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neurobiology from the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.
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