Dr. Kolb’s scientific leadership over the past two decades has contributed to the evolution of a group of world-class behavioural neuroscientists at the University of Lethbridge. His leadership is also credited with the recent creation of the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, which attracts visiting researchers from all over the globe to Lethbridge. 

Dr. Kolb has earned numerous honours, including the Hebb Lecturer prize from Dalhousie University and the Hebb Prize from both the Canadian Psychological Association and the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science. No other scientist has won all three Hebb prizes. He is a member of the prestigious International Neuropsychology Symposium – known as the “Group of One Hundred” – comprising the world’s most eminent behavioural neuroscientists.