Welcome to the Alcohol Research Lab

We are an alcohol research lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, headed by Dr. Catharine Fairbairn!

We explore alcohol’s social, cognitive, and emotional effects in order to understand how alcohol use might become a problem for some people.

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This past year, we’ve had a lot of fun getting to know each other and recruiting!! We are grateful to all of our wonderful RAs for all of their hard work and are excited to see what’s in store for the future! #ARL #AlcoholResearchLab As the end of the semester is approaching, we would like to highlight the RAs who have been working behind the scenes all year long. This week meet our social media team! #ARL #AlcoholResearchLab #ARLSocialMediaTeam For today's harm reduction tip, we will be looking at statistics pertaining to college drinking and alcohol use facts as a result of "Observing National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week" a few weeks ago. #ARL #AlcoholResearchLab Just a little throwback to our recruitment event just last week where our amazing recruitment team went out to flier at Parkland College. We are super excited for the warmer days to come🤩☀️ #alcoholresearchlab #ARL For today's harm reduction tip, we will be going over the importance of "Promoting Safety During Unofficial," in addition to learning about the history behind this campus-wide celebration at UIUC. Have a restful, safe Spring Break Illini! Even the cold weather couldn’t stop us from tabling on the quad last week! Hope you enjoyed spinning our prize wheel, getting some cool snacks, and getting to know more about what we do! We had so much fun recruiting at the Illini Homecoming Football Tailgate that happened earlier in the month! Go Illini!🔶🔷🔶🔷 Every week we will be introducing a new harm reduction tip of the week which will give insight into how you can keep yourself safe while drinking. This week we will be focusing on "knowing your limits" to better understand what is considered a standard drink and how to be more aware of your drinking habits. Hi everyone! Meet our Alcohol Research Lab Team for the 2021-2022 school year! We are super excited to show you what we have been working on and give you an inside look into our daily lives as researchers. If you are interested in taking part in a current study of ours please click the link in our bio. Cheers to a new school year!