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Dr. Mary Spodnick successfully defended her dissertation titled: Moderate Mid-Term Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and the Basolateral Amygdala: Pyramidal Neuron Physiology and Fear Learning in the Adolescent Sprague-Dawley Rat (August 7, 2025)
Shannon McElderry successfully defended her Masters Thesis (April 2025)
Shannon McElderry was selected as a recipient of the Linda P. Spear Graduate Student Excellence Award (February 2025)
Sarah Winchester received a NIAAA-funded F31 NRSA to study the effects of prenatal alcohol on the central amygdala -> bed nucleus of the stria terminalis circuitry (September 2024)
Sarah Winchester successfully defended her Masters Thesis (April 2023)
Dr. Meredith Gamble's capture of the hippocampus came in 2nd place at the annual BU Art of Science competition (April 2023)
Dr. Meredith Gamble successfully defended her dissertation entitled: Adult Hippocampal Dysfunction and Related Cognitive Impairments Following Prenatal Methadone Exposure (April 2023)
Dr. Kelcie Schatz received a NIAAA-funded F32 NRSA to study the effects of prenatal alcohol on the central amygdala -> periaquaductal grey circuitry (March 2023)
Margaret Agajanov (undergraduate research assistant) was a recipient of the Binghamton University Summer Scholars & Artists Award to continue her research and honors thesis project through the summer examining the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on kappa opioid receptor expression through development in brain areas associated with anxiety (March 2023)
Shafin Thahseen (high school trainee) was a recipient of an American Psychological Association (APA) poster award for his research investigating the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on ADHD-like behaviors (March 2023)
Sarah Winchester was awarded a FASDSG Trainee Award for the 2022 FASDSG meeting (May 2022)
Dr. Kathryn Przybysz successfully defended her dissertation entitled: Examining the role of the basolateral amygdala-to-prelimbic cortex projection in the social impairments produced by moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (December 16, 2021)
Katie Przybysz was awarded a Graduate Student Excellence Award in Service and Outreach (December 2021)
Meredith Gamble's dissertation proposal was a success!! (September 8, 2021)
Michelle Montero (undergraduate research assistant) was awarded a RSA Diversity Travel Award (June 2021)
Katie Przybysz has received a APA Dissertation Award through @APAScience to extend her studies on prenatal alcohol's impact on social interaction and the underlying neuroadaptations (November 2019)
Michelle Montero (undergraduate research assistant) has received an Undergraduate Research Award AND an Undergraduate Conference Presentation Award to study the effects of prenatal methadone on alcohol intake in adulthood (October 2019)
Dr. Siara Rouzer successfully defended her dissertation entitled: Age and sex-specific CRFR1-regulated GABAergic activity in the central amygdala is impaired by moderate prenatal alcohol exposure, contributing to inappropriate anxiety-like behavior in adolescent offspring (March 17, 2021)
Siara Rouzer was awarded a SUNY GREAT award (March 2021)
Michelle Montero received a Diversity Travel Award to attend the 2021 RSA Conference (February 2021)
Katie Przybysz was selected as a recipient of the #RSA Graduate Student Small Grant to investigate the effects of prenatal alcohol on BLA-to-prelimbic cortex projections (April 2019)
Siara Rouzer's F31 NRSA through #NIAAA was just funded to examine the role of age and sex on CRF1R function in the central amygdala and how prenatal alcohol disrupts these processes (September 2019)
Our very own Rhea Marfatia (undergraduate research assistant) has received a Summer Scholars and Artists Program Award to pilot a project examining the long-term effects of prenatal methadone on learning and memory (March 2019)
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