Professor of Psychology G. Alan Marlatt recently received the Harriet Tubman Freedom Award for Outstanding Community Activism and Lifetime Achievement to Improve Health at the second annual Health Disparities Conference at Columbia University in New York. He was also a keynote speaker at the conference. Dr. Marlatt is known internationally for his research in addictive behaviors; he is the director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center in the University of Washington Department of Psychology.