Participating Faculty
Faculty participating in the neuroscience have their primary affiliation in the departments of psychology or biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, or in the department of pharmaceutical sciencesin the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Here is a brief description of their research and teaching interests, and contact information. Feel free to contact any professor for further information.

Brian Sanders, Department of Psychology; College of Arts and Sciences
BA, Cornell College
PhD, The University of Tennessee

Research Interests: Effect of early experience on adult behavioral, cardiovascular and neurochemical responses to stress, stress and disease, neurobiology of stress, animal models of disease.

Teaching Interests: Biological Basis of Behavior, Health Psychology, Drugs and Behavior, Behavioral Endocrinology

Contact: 322 Olin Hall, 271-2043, Email Dr. Sanders; Visit Dr. Sanders' lab website

William Klipec, Department of Psychology; College of Arts and Sciences
BA, Kent State University
MS, University of Wisconsin
PhD, University of Arizona

Research Interests: As a behavioral neuroscientist, I am interested in integrating three research areas; the role of the mesolimbic dopamine system in learning, intracranial self-stimulation in the mesolimbic system, and P300 evoked response potentials as corrleates of learning.

Teaching Interests: Conditioning and Learning, Research Methods/Statistics, Advanced Statistics, History and Systems of Psychology.

Contact: 312 Olin Hall, 271-3929; Email Dr. Klipec

Steve Faux, PhD; Department of Psychology; College of Arts and Sciences
BA, University of California-Riverside
PhD, Brigham Young University

Research Interests: Dr. Faux's resesarch examines a specific brain wave, the P300 event-related potential, and correlates of discrimination learning and reinforcement in humans. Other interests include sensation and perception, schizophrenia, and behavioral neurology.

Teaching Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, sensation and perception, introductory psychology and evolutionary psychology.

Contact: 318 Olin Hall, 271-3829; Email Dr. Faux

Robert Soltis, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
BS; Butler University
PhD; Indiana University

Research Interests: Central mechanisms and pathways that mediate or influence the cardiovascular response to stress; pharmacological manipulation of discrete brain areas.

Teaching Interests: Principles of Drug Action, Neuropharmacology

Contact: 271-3020,Email Dr. Soltis

Craige Wrenn, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; College of Pharmacy and Health Science
BS; Oglethorpe University
PhD; Vanderbilt University

Research Interests: Neuropharmacology and neuroanatomy of learning and memory, with an empahsis on rodent models of Alzheimer's disease.

Teaching Interests: Neuropharmacology, Introduction to Pharmacy Science, Autonomic Nervous System, and Endocrine System.

Contact 118 Fitch Hall, 271-xxxx, Email Dr. Wrenn

Amy Wisniewski, Department of Biology
BA; Oberlin College
PhD; Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Abnormalities in fetal sex differentiation and behavioral outcomes; endocrine disruption of fetal sex differentiation; endocrine abnormalities associated with addiction.

Teaching Interests: Mammalian Physiology, General and pre-professional Biology, Endocrinology; Science of Clinical Investigation

Contact: 328 Olin Hall, 271-2957, Email Dr. Wisniewski

Maria Valdovinos, Department of Psychology
BA; Auburn University
MS; University of South Alabama
MA; University of Kansas
PhD; University of Kansas

Research Interests: Interaction of neurophysiology of genetic disorders associated with mental retardation and the efficacy of psychotropic medication; pharmacogenomics in developmental disabilities; interaction between psychotropic medication, their therapeutic and side effects, environment, and behaviorl in people with developmental disabilities.

Teaching Interests: Child and Adolescent Psychology, Biological Basis of Developmental Disorders, Psychopharmacology and Mental Retardation, Pervasive Developmental Disabilities, and Autisim.

Contact: 3xx Olin Hall, 271-xxxx, Email Dr. Valdovinos