Dr. Jennifer Merrill presented a talk titled "Qualitative Examination of Recent Alcohol-Induced Blackouts among Heavy Drinking Emerging Adults" at the 9th annual meeting for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood in Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Merrill also presented a talk titled "Novel targets and technologies to address heavy drinking and consequences on campus" in Sherbrooke, Canada on October 3. She was invited as a keynote speaker for the Symposium on Reducing Alcohol-related Harms among College and University Students Postsecondary Education Partnership – Alcohol Harms and the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.