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Neuroscience Student Publishes Honors Thesis

Julianna Brutman

Neuroscience Student Publishes Honors Thesis

Julianna BrutmanHonors College student and Goldwater Scholar Julianna Brutman majoring in Neuroscience has published the results of her Honors thesis in the peer-reviewed international journal Physiology & Behavior. Julianna’s thesis advisor was Professor Jon Davis in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University. In summer 2016, Julianna wrote and was awarded a young investigator grant from Washington State ADARP (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program) to investigate hypothalamic epigenetic changes in obese rodents exposed to a high-fat diet. Her data describing binge feeding in female rates was selected for a “hot topic” presentation at the international conference of The Obesity Society in November 2016. » More …

Honors Student to Present at 14th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference

Portrait of Nam Nguyen

Honors Student to Present at 14th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference

Portrait of Nam NguyenNam Nguyen will present their abstract “How Studying Abroad Influences Cross-Cultural Communication Skills in Terms of Adaptability and Sensitivity?” at the 14th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference in Airway Heights, WA, hosted by College of Education at Washington State University. The theme for the conference this year is Power and Cultural Politics in Antiracist and Decolonial Education and Educational Research: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Survival. » More …