Work from the lab was recently highlighted in an article in Harvard Medicine about the five senses. Bob was recently awarded a Giovanni Armenise Foundation grant to study the neural basis for the primal fear of asphyxiation; this award and the related work are described in an article in the Harvard Focus. Bob also won an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, which is intended to support promising young scientists from a wide range of scientific disciplines; the award is described in an article in the Harvard Gazette.