professors

Levin, Rachel (Coordinator) - Biology
Associate Professor

Research interests: Behavioral endocrinology & behavioral ecology; origin of sex differences in behavior; evolution & mechanisms underlying reproductive strategies

Office Location: Seaver South 112
rlevin@pomona.edu

Banks, William - Psychology
Professor

Research Interests: Implicit memory, consciousness, attention, and cognition in general

Homepage:  http://psych.pomona.edu/DrBanksWebPage/index.html

Burke, Deborah - Psychology
Professor

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience; effects of aging on brain and cognitive behavior, memory and language in dementia, age-related changes in language at level of single word and discourse, neural basis for word finding problems and anomia 

Homepage: http://psych.pomona.edu/cogaging

Office Location: Mason 103E
x72440
dburke@pomona.edu

Johnson, Karl - Biology
Assistant Professor 

Research Interests: Developmental neurobiology; the molecular biology of axon guidance and synapse formation, the roles of extracellular matrix proteoglycans in central nervous system development. (Recent publication


Office Location: Seaver West 212
x70069
karl.johnson@pomona.edu

 

Lewis, Richard - Psychology
Associate Professor and Coordinator

Research Interests: Social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience; Stress, health and electrophysiology; Cultural influences of electrophysiological indices of processing information. 

Homepage: http://web.mac.com/richardslewis/

Office Location: Mason 101A
x72445
rlewis@pomona.edu
 

Marshall, James - Mathematics, Computer Science
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence and cognitive science, especially neural network models of cognition; genetic algorithms, self-organizing and adaptive systems, robotics, machine learning, and evolutionary computation 

Homepage: http://pages.pomona.edu/~jbm04747/

Office Location: Andrew 261
x78650
james_marshall@pomona.edu

Parfitt, Karen - Biology
Associate Professor

Research interests: Synaptic physiology and plasticity; molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release; neurobiology of aging

Homepage: http://www.biology.pomona.edu/ParfittLab/

Office Location: Seaver South 15
x72445
kparfitt@pomona.edu

Selassie, Cynthia - Chemistry
Professor

Research interests: Medicinal chemistry; application of principles of computer assisted molecular design to the study of antifolates, anticancer drugs, and multidrug resistance

Homepage: http://www.chemistry.pomona.edu/Chemistry/Selassie.html

Office Location: Seeley Mudd Library, 2nd Floor
x18446
cselassie@pomona.edu

Weekes, Nicole - Psychology
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Individual differences in neuropsychological functioning, effects of stress on immune functioning, lost and preserved functions in complete and partial commissurotomy patients 

Office Location: Mason 104
x75594
nweekes@pomona.edu

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Seniors

Jared Garrison
jared.garrison@pomona.edu

Jennifer Jaskiewicz
jennifer.jaskiewicz@pomona.edu

Juniors

Gabriel Klapman
gabriel.klapman@pomona.edu

Shalini Lal
shalini.lal@pomona.edu

Sophomores

Alice Yang
alice.yang@pomona.edu

Julia Goldstein
julia.goldstein@pomona.edu

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Class of 2001

Moreno-Davis, Evan
emorenod@ucsd.edu
Post-BA: UCSD Interdisciplinary PhD. program in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.

Class of 1999

Hepinstall, Matt
msh26@columbia.edu
Post-BA: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

McDaniel, Sharon
ssmcdaniel47@yahoo.com
Post-BA: Washington University School of Medicine, Class of 2005 (2001-present)
Research, UCSD Department of Medicine (1999-2001)

Stocker, Tim
tim_stocker@hotmail.com
stocker@itsa.ucsf.edu
Post-BA: Staff Research Associate II, David Bredt's molecular neuroscience lab, UCSF Dept. of Physiology

Sundquist, Alexander
asundquist@pomona.edu
Post-BA: Freelance Graphic Designer/Web Designer

Class of 1998

Chavez, Edgar
eachavez@stanford.edu
Post-BA: Stanford University School of Medicine

Heaton, Jennifer
heatonj@medicine.wustl.edu
Post-BA: Washington University School of Medicine

Russell, Richard
rpr23@cam.ac.uk
Post-BA: RA, Department of Psychology, Cambridge University

Siew, David
d-siew@uchicago.edu
Post-BA: University of Chicago School of Medicine

Yamashita, Jaime
jyamashita@pinewood.edu
Post-BA: Middle School Science Teacher

Class of 1997

Arjal, Russ
rarjal@aecom.yu.edu
Post-BA: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Edmonds, Zach
zedmonds@ucla.edu
Post-BA: RA, UCLA School of Medicine

Hoehn, Benjamin Douglass
bhoehn@stanford.edu
Post-BA: RA, Anesthesiology Department at Medical College of Wisconsin; Stanford Medical School

Nidecker, Anna
ananda4747@aol.com
Post-BA: Freelance Science Writer

Schenk, Eliana
eschenk@pomona.edu
Post-BA: Western University School of Osteopathic Medicine

Sheffield, Avery
averyms@ix.netcom.com
Post-BA: Sales and Marketing, SERA Learning Technologies

Class of 1996

Kim, Bo
bwkim@umich.edu
Post-BA: University of Michigan Law School

Kim, Paul
paulhk@umich.edu
Post-BA: University of Michigan Law School

Price, Catharine
Catharine_Price@yahoo.com
POST-BA: Public Policy/Public Affairs Fellowships in Sacramento, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh, PA

Class of 1994

Evans, Sharon
ps96328@itsa.ucsf.edu
Post-BA: UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy

Class of 1992

Chun, Terrence
tchun@stanford.edu
Post-BA: MD, Hahnemann University (1997); Intern in Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (1997-1998); Resident in Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (1998-2000);  Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (2000-2003); Fellow in Pediatric Electrophysiology (2003-2004)

Class of 1989

Chang, Susanna
SChang@mednet.ucla.edu
Post-BA: PhD, Clinical Psychology (1998); Post-doc: UCLA Child Psychiatry Research Fellow

Class of 1986

Christiansen, Lois
lois@sosinc.net
Post-BA: M.A. Counseling Psychology, University of Colorado; Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of Northern Arizona; School Psychologist (RA, Aphasia Center, Boston VA)

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