Neuroscience

Go/RecoveryConversation/ to join members of the Health and Wellness Education Office and NSCI Professor Zu Zhai to share a meal with local community members from Peer Recovery Center of Addison County. Together we will hear from folks with lived experience to more holistically understand the meaning of peer recovery and the bio-psycho-social impacts of addiction. At this event you will: 

Sophie Larocque
“Substance Use Risk Among High School Adolescents Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence”

Owen Snyder-Smith
“Variation in Ethanol Sensitivity and Tolerance in Diversity Outbred Mice.”

Katherine Vasquez
“That Gave Me Goosebumps:” Personality Trait-Mediated Responses to Frisson and Methods for Studying Aesthetic Chills

Please join the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Climate Sciences, Geography, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Physics, and Psychology for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines. 

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

Biology | Great Hall | 2:00-3:15 pm
Chemistry | Great Hall | 2:00-3:15 pm
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | Great Hall | 2:00-3:15 pm

Earth and Climate Sciences | MBH 417 | 2:30-3:15 pm

Geography | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm
Neuroscience | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm
Physics | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm
Psychology | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm

Meet with students and faculty of the Neuroscience Program. Grab a slice of pizza, ask questions, and get to know your peers, mentors, faculty, advisors. 

Kathryn Blek
“Dose-Dependent Effects of Testosterone on Place and Response Memory in Young Rats”

Will Beckerman
“Genetic influences on electric shock learning and memory in D. Melanogaster.”

Gabriela Clemente
“Mitochondrial and Immune Responses Following Traumatic Brain Injury”

Remarks and breakout space for Geography, Neuroscience, Physics, and Psychology department seniors and their families.

Location: McCardell-Bicentennial Hall, Great Hall

1. Mahnoor Ahmad
2. Oakley Martin
3. Sam Ellinwood
4. Penelope Weekes

1. Isabella Caddeau
2. Olivia Chen
3. Milia Pollack

1. Taylor Han
2. Maya Henning

1. Sujay Banerjee
2. Camilla Salwen
3. Roeskva Torhalsdottir