William Greenough, Ph.D.
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Swanlund Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and
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Director, Center for Advanced Study at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
William Greenough, Ph.D., is Swanlund Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Cell and Developmental Biology, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His fields of professional interest include neural mechanisms of learning and memory, life-span developmental psychobiology, and molecular and cellular substrates of fragile X syndrome.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association and the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society. He was a member of the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development for the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, which produced From Neurons to Neighborhoods, as well as the National Academies' committee that produced the report How People Learn.
He earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
