The General/Experimental Program

Current Graduate Students

Class of 2012

Scott Schepers	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Mark Bouton
	Areas	I am interested in designing models that allow a more complete understanding of characteristics and mechanisms that contribute to addictive behavior. Also, in applying behavioral models in the development of more effective behavioral and pharmacological treatments for addiction.


Sydney Trask	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Mark Bouton
	Areas	I am interested in the various recovery phenomena that occur after the extinction of a learned response.
	Service	Graduate Student Representative

Class of 2011

Harold Bauerle	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Donna Toufexis
	Areas	I'm working with Dr. Donna Toufexis to create an animal model of Post-Partum Depression to facilitate the development of medicines to treat this illness that affects 9 to 15% of all women following childbirth. I'm hoping my work will contribute to the long term betterment of society as a whole, and the improvement of the human condition.


Derek DeBellis	Subprogram	Social
	Mentor	Elizabeth Pinel
	Areas	How do we create and maintain a stable sense of self? Are nonconscious processes vital in the maintenance of the self? How much is the self an extension of others? How much are others (as viewed by the self) an extension of the self? Is an overlap of self and other capable of leading to prosociality?


Tera Fazzino	Subprogram	Human Behavioral Pharmacology
	Mentor	Gail Rose
	Areas	I am interested in health behavior change and technologically-based screening and treatment interventions for substance use and other psychiatric disorders.

Class of 2010

Meghan Eddy	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	John Green
	Areas	The effects of exercise on ADHD-like behavior and expression of dopamine and norepinephrine transporters in medial prefrontal cortex and striatum.


Jason Fuchs	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	John Green
	Areas	I am interested in examining the role of voltage-gated potassium channels in eyeblink conditionig and synaptic plasticity
	Service	American Psychological Association (APA) Science Student Council Behavioral Neuroscience Representative

Brendan Hare	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	William Falls
	Areas	I am interested in how exercise modulates anxiety-like behavior through changes in brain regions involved with emotion, and response to stress.


James Hodge	Subprogram	Social
	Mentor	Carol Miller
	Areas	Broadly, my research explores stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Current areas of interest include sexism and sexual harassment, mental illness stigma, HIV/AIDS stigma, weight-based stigma, and stereotype threat.
	Service	Graduate Student Representative Association for Psychological Science (APS) Student Caucus President-Elect

Danra Kazenski	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Barry Guitar
	Areas	I am interested in the effects of emotional reactivity in preschool children who stutter. We are currently examining emotional variables pre and post Lidcombe Program treatment based on the Dual-Diathesis Stressor Model. I also work clinically as a speech-language pathologist with people who stutter using primarily the Lidcombe Program for preschool/school age populations and the Camperdown Program as well as a cognitive-behavioral approach for teens and adults.


Margaret Kocho-Schellenberg	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Jom Hammack
	Areas	Neurochemical and neuroanatomical aspects that mediate and modulate behavior following exposure stress


Caitlin Wagner	Subprogram	Developmental
	Mentor	Jamie Abaied
	Areas	Developmental Psychopathology

Class of 2009

Andrew Knapp	Subprogram	Social
	Mentor	Carol Miller
	Areas	I am interested in several aspects of terror management theory especially physiological evidence of anxiety reduction as a result of employing defense mechanisms. I am also exploring some effects of experimenter on study outcomes and when people do and do not pay attention to social norm models. In addition I am interested in implicit measures (IAT, etc) and the physiological component of people's response to them.


Alexa Lopez	Subprogram	Human Behavioral Pharmacology
	Mentor	Stephen Higgins
	Areas	Cigarette Smoking and Contingency Management Interventions


Mollie Patrick	Subprogram	Human Behavioral Pharmacology
	Mentor	Stacey Sigmon
	Areas	(1) Contingency management interventions for smoking cessation in opioid-dependent patients; (2) Behavioral and pharmacological treatments for prescription opioid dependence; (3) Novel formulations of pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence


Nolan Rampy	Subprogram	Social
	Mentor	Elizabeth Pinel
	Areas	Terror Management Theory, I-Sharing

Class of 2008


Evan Herrmann	Subprogram	Human Behavioral Pharmacology
	Mentor	Sarah Heil
	Areas	Substance Abuse, Nicotine Withdrawal


Mark Huneke	Subprogram	Social
	Mentor	Elizabeth Pinel
	Areas	Interpersonal Relationships and Cooperation


Olga Lipatova	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Donna Toufexis
	Areas	Biobehavioral Endocrinology


Carolyn Roman	Subprogram	UVM Neuroscience Graduate Program
	Mentor	Jom Hammack & Victor May
	Areas	Behavioral Neuroscience


Travis Todd	Subprogram	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Mark Bouton
	Areas	Associative learning; Timing and inhibition


Jennifer Zangl	Subprogram	Social
	Mentor	Carol Miller
	Areas	Coping, stigma, romantic relationships