Dr. Ksir is currently Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1971 from Indiana University. His primary research activity for the past 25 years has been in behavioral pharmacology, and he has published a number of articles on the behavioral and neurochemical effects of psychoactive drugs in laboratory animals. Much of his recent work has focused on nicotine, but he is also knowledgeable about the extent of methamphetamine use by young people in Wyoming and the Western United States, and how such use is related to other social problems.Dr. Ksir has taught the course Drugs and Behavior to thousands of students, and is co-author of the textbook, Drugs, Society and Human Behavior with Oakley Ray. The eighth edition of this text is in press (McGraw-Hill). From 1987 to 1991 Dr. Ksir was the director of the Chemical Abuse Research and Education program at the University of Wyoming. Since 1987 he has served on the Wyoming Governor's Advisory Board on Substance Abuse and Violent Crime.