Recognition

​‘Lahvis’s writing has an engaging clarity and specificity that draws us into his laboratory setting, and he alternates these descriptive passages with sophisticated reflections…on the larger questions about the certainty we expect from science. ‘Science is more like a prism,’ he writes, ‘refracting our results into a spectrum of new questions.’”  [link] 

– Aatif Rashid, 
judge of the Oregon Literary Fellowship

For Scientific Merit

2009  Genes, Brain and Behavior Key Paper in Psychology

1986    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Award for Outstanding Performance 

For Literary Writing

2020   Oregon Literary Fellowship in Nonfiction​

​2014/22   Nominations for Pushcart Literary Prize (December magazine, Aeon magazine)

2014    Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction

For Teaching

2018    OHSU All-Hill Flame Runner-Up for faculty member who goes above and beyond their duties to support students

2018    Student’s Choice Award, Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU

2017/18    School of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Graduate Studies Program

2017    OHSU All-Hill Flame Faculty Award Nomination

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