Congratulations to Fellow Hannah Rea, PhD, for receiving a four-year supplement to her Institute of Translational Health Sciences KL2 award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Rea will be investigating predictors and moderators of challenging behaviors (aggression toward others, self-harm, severe tantrumming) in archival data of children with rare genes associated with autism and in a newly collected sample of children with Down syndrome (ages 6 to 14 years). Specifically, she’ll be looking at whether parent reports, behavioral assessments and measuring electrical activity in the brain are reliable indicators of challenging behaviors, and then analyzing IQ as a predictor of those behaviors while taking into account the child’s executive functioning skills such as the capacity to plan ahead and meet goals, display self-control, follow multiple-step directions, and stay focused, among others.