[3] The CAS was the first research institute dedicated to alcohol studies after the 21st amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealed prohibition in 1933.
[4] The center was founded at Yale as a research area in the Applied Physiology department in 1935.
[5] E. Morton Jellinek was Director of the Center until the 1950s, and stepped down when he was offered a position at the World Health Organization.
Around this time, the Yale Corporation voted to move the Center to a new location, negotiating mainly with Brown, Columbia and Rutgers University.
[9] The center moved to Rutgers University in 1962, with financial assistance from the National Institutes of Health and philanthropist Christopher D.
[10] Biochemist David Lester was appointed scientific director of the CAS after it moved to Rutgers.
The Center has received several donations, including the Connor Alcohol Research Reference Files (CARRF).