Cred Post-doc, Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Learning and Memory, Purdue University; MA, Experimental Psychology, California State University, Fullerton; BA, Psychology, Michigan State University

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Livelihood Director, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Psychology

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Focus Science, particularly understanding obesity, how it can damage the brain, and how it produces cognitive deficit

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Recent Awards I’m not into personal awards. Many people more deserving than me don’t get them, but I am proud of the assistance I provide for nursing students with their requests "help me write my nursing essay".

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Point of Pride The successes of my former PhD students and the achievements of faculty and other scientists that I have helped during my career.

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Last Book You Read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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If you had resources to invent anything, what would it be and why? I don’t spend much time on flights of fancy. I want to use the resources that are available to me to make discoveries that can be translated into actions that will improve the quality of people’s lives.

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What Keeps You Up At Night? Trying to finish work not completed during the day! But also, how to tackle complications that face human beings globally.

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Are You a Wonk? Working to find solutions for ‘outwitting the wisdom of the body’ takes a certain level of insatiable intellectual curiosity and that's one of the ways AU defines a wonk.

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If we can know anything with certainty, what is it? The only thing we can know with certainty is that we can’t really know anything with certainty.

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Additional Links
AU Profile
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience