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Kelly Lambert
Kelly Lambert is the Trawick Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Richmond where she investigates experience-based neuroplasticity and teaches multiple neuroscience courses. Professor Lambert has approximately 80 scholarly publications and has written two neuroscience textbooks and three mainstream books including Lifting Depression, The Lab Rat Chronicles, and Well-Grounded. She is currently writing Wild Brains: Translating Optimal Mental Health Strategies from the Bush to the Bedside. Lambert was awarded the Virginia Professor of the Year award in 2008 and, more recently, was recognized as one of three national finalists for Baylor University’s Robert Cherry Award for Great Teaching. In 2018, Lambert was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award given by the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. Her research targeting connections between physical effort and emotional resilience was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and her rat-driving research has been featured in over 1500 news stories across the world, including the Netflix series The Hidden Lives of Pets and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Rat City. In 2019, Lambert described her behaviorceuticals research perspective in a TEDx Bermuda talk. In 2023, she received the Society for Neuroscience’s Science Educator Award for her scientific outreach endeavors.About Key Conversations 
Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa is a podcast featuring in-depth conversations between Fred Lawrence, Secretary/CEO of Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars. With a new episode released monthly, each podcast invites listeners to take a seat at the table to learn more about the featured Scholar's background, research, and how they have taken their respective paths to where they are now, and where they are headed.
Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program has been offering undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America's most distinguished scholars. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students.
