Dr Tom Carew Biography

Dr Thomas J. Carew Biography

Thomas J. Carew received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. For several years he was a member of the faculty of Columbia Medical School before moving to Yale, where he was the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and a Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. He is a former Chair of the Department of Psychology at Yale, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, an elected Member of the Society for Experimental Psychology, an elected Fellow of the AAAS, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past Councilor of the Society for Neuroscience. He served as President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2008. He is also the recipient of several awards, including a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Yale College Dylan Hixon Prize for excellence in teaching in the natural sciences, and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at UCI. He is a member of numerous Editorial and Advisory Boards.

From 2000 to 2011 Dr. Carew held an endowed chair at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Bren Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. In July, 2011 Dr. Carew became the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, where he is also a Professor of Neural Science.