Natalie Fuchs 

Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Pinel

Subprogram: Social

Areas: My research interests specifically include existential isolation/connection and I-sharing. I am eager to further test philosophical concepts empirically with the goal of understanding more about the psychological impacts of how humans conceptualize their realities. On an applied level, I am interested in examining the utility of existential connection for interpersonal and inter-group harmony.

Zaidan Mohammed 

Mentor: Donna Toufexis

Subprogram: Biobehavioral

Areas: Behavioral neuroscience, the development of habitual behavior, sex differences, stress

Mahafuza Aktar 

Mentor: Sayamwong Hammack

Subprogram: Biobehavioral

Areas: My research focuses on the effects of chronic stress and the mechanism how chronic stress might produce anxiety like behavior, using transgenic mouse model. I am also interested in the neuropeptide called the pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and its effects on anxiety like behavior.

Samantha Moriarty

Mentor: Sayamwong Hammack

Subprogram: Biobehavioral

Areas: My areas of interest include stress and anxiety and their effects on the brain, as well as the role of stress in reinstating behaviors related to addiction.

Tatum Oleskowicz 

Areas: I am interested in investigating the biopsychosocial underpinnings of drug dependence and interventions to more effectively treat it.

Subprogram: Social

Mentor: Elizabeth Pinel