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]
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