The General/Experimental Program

Current Graduate Students

Class of 2010

Meghan Eddy	Program	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	Program	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	John Green
	Areas	Neurobiology of Eye Blink Conditioning


Julie Grossenbacher	Program	Developmental
	Mentor	Dianna Murray-Close
	Areas	Children's Social Development and Peer Relationships


Brendan Hare	Program	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	Program	Social
	Mentor	Carol Miller
	Areas	My current research interests include: 1) How people cope with various stigmatized identities (e.g. HIV/AIDS, weight, sexual orientation); 2) Gender and racial stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination; 3) Exploring different ways of measuring implicit cognitions such as attitudes, stereotypes and identity.


Danra Kazenski	Program	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	Program	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Jom Hammack
	Areas	Neurochemical and neuroanatomical aspects that mediate and modulate behavior following exposure stress


Vincenzo Piraino	Program	Biobehavioral
	Mentor	Jom Hammack & Donna Toufexis
	Areas	1) Stress response systems; 2) Psychopharmacology of mammalian defensive behaviors, fear, and anxiety; 3) Neural systems activated in response to predators and partial predator stimuli; 4) Sex differences in post-traumatic stress disorder; 5) Ethoexperimental perspectives.


Caitlin Wagner	Program	Developmental
	Mentor	Jamie Abaied
	Areas	Developmental Psychopathology

Class of 2009

Andrew Knapp	Program	Social
	Mentor	Carol Miller
	Service	Graduate Student Representative
	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	Program	Human Behavioral Pharmacology
	Mentor	Stephen Higgins
	Areas	Cigarette Smoking and Contingency Management Interventions


Mollie Patrick	Program	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	Program	Social
	Mentor	Elizabeth Pinel
	Areas	Terror Management Theory, I-Sharing

Class of 2008


Erin Donovan	Program	Developmental
	Mentor	Dianna Murray-Close
	Areas	Gender and Sexuality


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


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


Olga Lipatova	Program	Biobehavioral/Neuroscience
	Mentor	Donna Toufexis
	Areas	Biobehavioral Endocrinology


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


Travis Todd	Program	Biobehavioral/Neuroscience
	Mentor	Mark Bouton
	Service	Graduate Student Representative
	Areas	Associative learning; Timing and inhibition

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

Class of 2007


Matthew Bradstreet	Program	Psychopharmacology
	Mentor	Stephen Higgins
	Areas	Human Behavioral Pharmacology


Gregory Lieberman	Program	UVM Neuroscience Graduate Program
	Mentor	Jom Hammack & Mark Bouton
	Areas	Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience; Learning, Memory, Emotion; Fear and Anxiety


Drina Vurbic	Program	Biobehavioral/Neuroscience
	Mentor	Mark Bouton
	Areas	Learning & Memory

Class of 2006


Kimberly Lezak	Program	Biobehavioral/Neuroscience
	Mentor	Jom Hammack
	Areas	Anxiety and Fear

Class of 2005


Leslie Johnson	Program	Social
	Mentor	Elizabeth Pinel
	Areas	My research examines self processes as a means understanding interpersonal relationships, with a focus on relationships with stigmatized others. I am particularly interested in applying self-based theories, such as research on I-sharing and the in-group over-exclusion effect, to questions about the expression of weight-based stigma.


Laura Selkirk	Program	Developmental
	Mentor	Lynne Bond
	Areas	Adolescent Achievement Motivation


Erin Shoulberg	Program	Developmental
	Mentor	Dianna Murray-Close
	Areas	Social and Academic Adjustment during Adolescence