Where are they now?

Many members of our laboratory have continued on with careers in education, medicine, and research.

PhD Graduate Students Trained

       1988    Janet L. Neisewander, Ph.D.             

Dissertation Title:  "Behavioral and neurochemical effects of chronic opiate antagonist treatment in senescent rats." 

         Present Position:  Professor, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

      

1992    Shana L. Pack (formerly Bowling), Ph.D.

           Dissertation Title:  "The effects of environmental enrichment on responsiveness to amphetamine in rats:   Neurochemistry and behavior."

Present Position: Instructor, Department of Psychology, Western Kentucky University-Glasglow, Glasglow, KY.

 

1992    Cynthia A. Crawford, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title:  "Age‑related behavioral and neurochemical differences in the effect of irreversible antagonism of dopamine receptors in the rat."

Present Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Bernardino, CA.

               

1993    James K. Rowlett, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title:  "Locomotor and rewarding effects of the opioid mixed agonist‑antagonist buprenorphine assessed with conditioned place preference."

Present Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, New England Regional Primate Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA.

                                      

        1994    Nancy A. Honeycutt, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title:  "Lateralized function in patients with complex partial seizures of temporal origin."

Present Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatric Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

                                       

        1998    Patricia M. Robinet, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: “The role of dopamine D3 receptors in rotational behavior following a 6-hydroxydopamine lesion medial forebrain bundle."

Most Recent Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Colby College, Waterville, ME. 

               

1999    Jennifer E. Klebaur, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: “The role of novelty in disruption of amphetamine self-administration.”

Most Recent Position: Adjunct Faculty, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte NC

               

2002    Thomas A. Green, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: “Environmental enrichment and incentive salience factors affecting operant responding for drug and non-drug reinforcers."                   

Present Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

                                

        2004    Brenda J. Gehrke, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: “Effects of environmental enrichment on methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity.”

Present Position:  Postdoctoral Scholar, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD.

                                    

2005     Emily D. Klein, Ph.D (co-chair with Dr. Thomas Zentall)

Dissertation Title: “Cocaine and sucrose cross-sensitization.”

Present Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, The Language Research Center, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

 

2007Dustin J. Stairs, Ph.D

Dissertation Title:
Enrichment-induced differences in corticosterone: differential response to amphetamine and glucocorticoid receptor blockade in low dose amphetamine self-administration.

Present Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

 

2007Nichole Neugebauer, Ph.D

Dissertation Title:
The effects of lobeline on methamphetamine-indcued conditioned place preference and dopaminergic alterations in the nucleus accumbens.

Present Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory (Dr Marina Picciotto), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Postdoctoral Scholars Trained 

        1993-1996           Rick A. Bevins, Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts

Present Position: Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.

 

        1999-2002           Anthony Rauhut, Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts

Present Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

 

        1999-2003           Steven B. Harrod, Ph.D. from Kent State University

Present Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

                            

        2002-2004           Mary E. Cain, Ph. D. from University of Vermont

Present Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

 

2006-2007           Jennifer L Perry, Ph. D. from University of Minnesota

Present Position:  Postdoctoral Scholar, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

 

2008-2010           Julie A Marusich, Ph. D. from University of Florida

Present Position:  Postdoctoral Scientist, Research Triangle Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

 

 

 

 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

 

Emily Denehy

emily.denehy@uky.edu

Last Updated: 8/11/10