DAESA honors faculty, staff, and student accomplishments
The Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement celebrated the recent accomplishments of WSU faculty, staff, and students at an April 13 event in Pullman.
The Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement celebrated the recent accomplishments of WSU faculty, staff, and students at an April 13 event in Pullman.
Benjamin Stuart Morledge-Hampton from the College of Veterinary Medicine has won Washington State University’s 2023 Three Minute Thesis (3MT).
Laura Kinslow, fiscal specialist supervisor for the college’s Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience department, is the recipient of the WSU President’s Employee Excellence Award.
Katie Sciarrotta and Sophie Shirali are the latest recipients of the Peter A. Zornes Memorial Neuroscience Scholarship.
McKenna Spencer is majoring in neuroscience and will graduate this spring. She hopes to get into medical school after she wraps up her undergraduate studies. She has gained experience working in Dr. Ryan McLaughlin’s Lab in the Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience department investigating the influence of sex hormones on cannabis-seeking behavior.
Peyton Krych is a fourth generation Coug. He is majoring in neuroscience and minoring in math and biology. He will graduate this spring with plans on eventually becoming a physician.
Only a handful of years ago Matteya Proctor was wrapping up her high school studies in her hometown of Deary, Idaho, where she was one of just 10 seniors in the class of 2020. Now at WSU, she is pursuing a double degree in neuroscience and psychology while gaining invaluable experience assisting in groundbreaking research projects on the brain, aging, and sleep.
Medical school is in the plans for Sydney Swatzell when she graduates from WSU this spring. The Spokane, Washington, native and West Valley High School graduate is currently pursuing a degree in neuroscience and specializing in pre-medicine.
Associate professor Samantha Gizerian was destined to be a physicist but fell in love with neuroscience, particularly the developing brain, along the way.
Raised in an Air Force family, Audrey Almeria has spent her life traveling and living all over the world, and she even graduated high school in Misawa, Japan. But she has found a home at Washington State University, where she is double majoring in psychology and neuroscience and will graduate this coming spring. When she leaves Pullman, Audrey hopes to attend medical school and pursue family medicine.