Ph.D. Students
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Zebulon (Zeb) Bell
Zeb joined the PhD program in Fall 2017 after obtaining his MS at Georgia Southern University. He is interested in studying curriculum, teaching, and diversity in STEM fields, with the goal of enriching the typical undergraduate experience. Zeb is also interested in spatial navigation, orientation, memory, learning, and perception, particularly within virtual environments and in invertebrate species.
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Christian Kotoye
Christian joined the PhD program in Fall 2018 and is being coadvised by Dr. Escobar and Dr. Melissa McDonald. He is interested in intergroup relationships, and how race and socioeconomic status drive biases in social relationships and education. One of his focus of interest is how implicit biases may affect the mentor-mentee relationship, and how the nature of this relationship may influence professional identity.
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M.S. Students
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Jacob Dowell
Jacob joined the MS program in Fall 2018 after obtaining his BS at Oakland University. He is interested in studying the mechanisms of memory in mammals.
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Donna Irvan
Donna started working in the lab during the summer of 2016 and started her graduate studies in Fall 2016. She is currently working on her MS thesis.
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Undergraduate Students
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Claire Bova
Claire joined the lab in the Spring of 2018. She is majoring in Health Science with a Pre-Health Professional concentration. She is currently collecting data for her Honors Thesis. Her goal is to attend medical school.
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Brittany Fust
Brittany joined the lab in Winter 2019. She is a Psychology major who intends to pursue graduate education in neuropsychology. She is currently developing the methodology for her Honors Thesis.
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Chewkuebuka (Ebuka) Unobagha
Ebuka has been a lab member since Fall 2015. He is majoring in Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences, and intends to attend medical school. Since he began working in the lab, Ebuka has coauthored one encyclopedia entry, and became one of the 2019 recipients of the Oakland University "Keeper of the Dream" award.
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Emily Wolf
Emily joined the lab in the spring of 2018. She is majoring in biomedical sciences and hopes to attend medical school to become a physician. She is currently starting work on her Honors' Thesis.
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Bradley (Brad) Vandecar
Brad joined the lab in the Spring of 2018. He is a biochemistry major, and is currently starting work on his Honors' Thesis. Brad would like to pursue a career in genetics, and specialize in the genetics of disease.
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Hanna Ziel
Brad joined the lab in the Spring of 2018. He is a biochemistry major, and is currently starting work on his Honors' Thesis. Brad would like to pursue a career in genetics, and specialize in the genetics of disease.
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Other student collaborators
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Eriel Datuin
Eriel is a student of the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, and she is completing her EMBARK project in our laboratory. Eriel is researching the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on different types of memory.
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Aaminah Tabassum
Aaminah working in the laboratory as a high school volunteer in Summer 2017. She is currently an undergraduate student in Wayne State University, but continues to volunteer at the lab. She is one of expert invertebrate student researchers.
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Former Students (Auburn University)
Graduate students:
Elizabeth Powell Dunaway, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dalton State College)
Whitney Kimble Pugh, Ph.D.
W. Travis Suits, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology, Seminole State College)
Justin S. Johnson, M.S.
R. Alexander Sauer, M.S. (graduate student, Auburn University)
Seth Wilhelmsen, M.S. (Academic Advisor, Weber State University)
Graduate student collaborators:
Duncan Amegbletor, M.S. (doctoral candidate, Auburn University)
Dwipayan Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow, University of Alabama - Birmingham)
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow, Emory University)
Undergraduate research assistants:
Daniel Bradford (clinical psychology graduate student, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Caroline Catchpole (attorney, University of Virginia School of Law)
Kyle Gennaro (urology resident, University of Alabama)
Kristen Haynes (industrial engineering graduate student, Auburn University)
Daniel Krenn (I/O psychology graduate student, Wayne State University)
Mallory McInnes (family physician, University of Miami)
Arnold Obungu (medical student, University of Iowa)
Aaron Plitt (neurosurgery resident, University of Texas Southwestern)
Elizabeth J. Rahn, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow, University of Alabama - Birmingham)
Tyler Toledo (clinical psychology graduate student, University of Tulsa)
Chukwuebuka Unobagha (premed student, Oakland University)
Elizabeth Powell Dunaway, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dalton State College)
Whitney Kimble Pugh, Ph.D.
W. Travis Suits, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology, Seminole State College)
Justin S. Johnson, M.S.
R. Alexander Sauer, M.S. (graduate student, Auburn University)
Seth Wilhelmsen, M.S. (Academic Advisor, Weber State University)
Graduate student collaborators:
Duncan Amegbletor, M.S. (doctoral candidate, Auburn University)
Dwipayan Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow, University of Alabama - Birmingham)
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow, Emory University)
Undergraduate research assistants:
Daniel Bradford (clinical psychology graduate student, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Caroline Catchpole (attorney, University of Virginia School of Law)
Kyle Gennaro (urology resident, University of Alabama)
Kristen Haynes (industrial engineering graduate student, Auburn University)
Daniel Krenn (I/O psychology graduate student, Wayne State University)
Mallory McInnes (family physician, University of Miami)
Arnold Obungu (medical student, University of Iowa)
Aaron Plitt (neurosurgery resident, University of Texas Southwestern)
Elizabeth J. Rahn, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow, University of Alabama - Birmingham)
Tyler Toledo (clinical psychology graduate student, University of Tulsa)
Chukwuebuka Unobagha (premed student, Oakland University)
Former Students (Oakland University)
Undergraduate research assistants:
Matthew Bahoura
Elijah Bonner (nursing student, Oakland University)
Amanda Lechnar (veterinary student, Michigan State University)
Syed Murtaza
Matthew Bahoura
Elijah Bonner (nursing student, Oakland University)
Amanda Lechnar (veterinary student, Michigan State University)
Syed Murtaza