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• National Award of Excellence in Mentoring - National Hispanic Science Network (01/01/2016-12/31/2016)
• Outstanding Performer Award for Securing Extramural Funding - UTEP office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2016-12/31/2016)
• Faculty Mentor Award - UTEP College of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Oustanding Performer Award for Securing Extramural Funding - UTEP office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2013-12/31/2013)
• Travel Award - American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• Outstanding Performance Award - UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2008-12/31/2008)
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) - National Science and Technology Council (01/01/2008-12/31/2008)
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award - UTEP office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award - UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Travel Award - College of Problems of Drug Abuse (01/01/1999-12/31/1999)

• Ph D in Behavioral Neuroscience, Arizona State University (1997)
• MS in Behavioral Neuroscience, Arizona State University (1994)
• BS in Psychology, Texas A&M University (1992)

• Female rats display greater nicotine withdrawal-induced cellular activation of a central portion of the interpeduncular nucleus versus males: A study of Fos immunoreactivity within provisionally assigned interpeduncular subnuclei Drug and Alcohol Dependence 221 (2021), Felix Matos-Ocasio, Veronika E. Espinoza, Paola Correa-Alfonzo, Arshad Khan, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Overexpression of corticotropin-releasing factor in the nucleus accumbens enhances the reinforcing effects of nicotine in female versus male rats Neuropsychopharmacology (2020), Kevin P. Uribe, Victor L. Corres, Briana E. Pinales, Rodolfo J. Flores, Bryan Cruz, Zhiying Shan, Adriaan W. Bruijnzeel, Arshad Khan, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Estradiol promotes the rewarding effects of nicotine in female rats Behavioral Brain Research 307 (2016), Rodolfo J. Flores, Joseph A. Pipkin, Kevin P. Uribe, Adriana Perez, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Insight into the potential factors that promote tobacco use in vulnerable populations. Current Addiction Reports 3 1 (2016), Luis Carcoba, Oscar V. Torres, Joseph A. Pipkin, tiahna Ontiveros, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Enhanced vulnerability to tobacco use in persons with diabetes: A behavioral and neurobiological framework Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 65 (2016), Laura E. O'Dell, Arbi Nazarian.
• Stress is a principal factor that promotes tobacco use in females Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 65 (2016), Laura E. O'Dell, Oscar V. Torres.
• Enhanced tobacco use vulnerability in adolescents, females, and persons with diabetes Elsevier 5 (2016), Joseph A. Pipkin, Tiahna Ontiveros, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Extended access to methamphetamine self-administration up-regulates dopamine transporter levels 72 hours after withdrawal in rats. Behavioural brain research 296 (2016), Christina E. D'Arcy, J E. Luevano, Manuel Miranda-Arango, Joseph A. Pipkin, J A. Jackson, Edward Castaneda, Kristin Gosselink, Laura E. O'Dell.

• Prolonged alcohol and nicotine exposure suppresses inflammatory markers and stress hormone levels (2017), Bryan Cruz, Rodolfo J. Flores, Danielle Martinez, Alejandra Lopez, Evangelina Espinoza, Cecilia A. Hinojosa, Charles Spencer, Laura E. O'Dell.
• 'Nicotine exposure alters neuronal cytoskeleton by PI3K/GSK3β mediated pathway' (2017), Volume UTEP, Clarisa Palacios, Karen Castaneda, Manuel Miranda-Arango, Laura E. O'Dell, Sukla Roychowdhury.
• Effects of maternal separation on vulnerability to methamphetamine and synaptic plasticity. (2016), Volume San Diego, CA, Jameel N. Hamdan, Sigifredo Saucedo, Gabriel A. Lodoza, Jorge A. Sierra-Fonseca, Laura E. O'Dell, Kristin Gosselink.
• Neural mechanisms that promote tobacco use in vulnerable populations: Findings from animal models (2016), Volume Buffalo, NY, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Working in interdisciplinary research teams: Socio-neuroscience horizons in drug abuse research (2016), Volume Los Angeles, CA, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Neurobiological mechanisms that modulate the long-term effects of the nicotine exposure during adolescence: Mechanisms and long-term effects (2016), Volume British Colombia, Canada, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Science as a platform to promote diversity (2016), Volume Bethesda, MD, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Neural mechanisms that promote tobacco use in females (2016), Volume Bethesda, MD, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Neural mechanisms that promote nicotine use in vulnerable populations (2016), Volume Jackson, MI, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Insulin regulation of enhanced nicotine intake in a rodent models of diabetes (2016), Volume Breckenridge, CO, Laura E. O'Dell.

• Vulnerability Issues in Drug Abuse: Career and Research Transdisciplinary Training Program (VIDA:CART)
• Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) Program
• Insulin Mechanisms of Diabetes-Evoked Enhancement of Nicotine Reward
• Research Excellence for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Mentoring And Research Training: Methods In Neuroscience of Drug-Abuse (SMART MIND).