Curriculum Vitae:
W. Jeffrey Wilson

Present Address:

Education:

• University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Ph.D., Psychology, 1983.
  • M.A., Psychology, 1978.
• Haverford College, Haverford, PA
  • B.A., Psychology, 1977.

Positions Held:

• Department of Psychology, Albion College:
  • December 2002 to present: Chair.
  • August 1999 to present: Professor.
• Department of Psychology, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne:
  • August 1996 to 1999: Professor.
  • August 1989 to 1996: Associate professor.
  • August 1984 to 1989: Assistant professor.
• Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland:
  • January to June, 1993: Visiting Research Professor (Sabbatical).
• Postdoctoral Positions:
  • January to July, 1984: Postdoctoral Research Associate with S. S. Soltysik, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA.
  • Spring trimester, 1984: Adjunct professor, Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology.
  • January to December, 1983: Postdoctoral research associate with J. Siegel, Neurobiology Research, Sepulveda VAMC, Sepulveda, CA.
• Predoctoral & Undergraduate Positions:
  • January 1979 to December 1982: Predoctoral research associate with S. S. Soltysik, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA.
  • July 1979 to June 1982: Teaching assistant and associate, Psychology Department, UCLA.
  • Summer 1978: Research associate with L. L. Butcher, UCLA.
  • Summer 1977: Research associate with G. D. Ellison, UCLA.
  • 1976 to 1977: Research associate with E. Thomas, Bryn Mawr College.

Awards:

• Lifetime Achievement Award, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, 2004.
• Award for Support and Promotion of Outstanding Research in Neuroscience at the Undergraduate Level, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (a national group), 1992, 1994, 2002.
• Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), a system-wide Indiana University award, 1995.
• College Science Teacher of the Year, IPFW Chapter, Sigma Xi, 1994.
• Award for Enhancement of Learning, School of Science and Humanities, Indiana University - Purdue University at Fort Wayne, 1986.
• S.I. Franz Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Psychology, UCLA, 1981.
• Chancellor's Fellow, UCLA, 1978 - 1982.
• Honors in Psychology, Haverford College, 1977.

Grants Funded:

• Albion College Faculty Development Committee combined Large and Small Faculty Development Grants, Spring 2000.
• Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant, Summer, 1995.
• UNESCO Support for Research at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland, Summer, 1994.
• Purdue/Midwestern University Consortium for International Affairs International Travel Grant, Spring, 1993.
• IPFW Grant Overhead Allocation Program grant, Summer 1990.
• Purdue University XL Grant, Summers 1986 & 1988.
• IPFW Summer Grant for Research, Summers 1985 & 1987.
• Special Grant from Dean of Arts & Sciences (IPFW) to support a summer research assistant, Summers 1988, 1992, & 1995.
• Special Grant from Dean of Science & Humanities (IPFW) to support a summer research assistant, Summers 1985 & 1987.
• Special Grant from IPFW for acquisition of laboratory computer systems, Fall 1986. (with B. B. Abbott)
• UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Biomedical Research Support Grant (PHS RR 05756-09), 1982 - 1983.

Publications:

• Wilson, W. J. (2006). Reflections on Zielinski in Light of his Comments on Konorski.  Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 66, 87-89..
• Wilson, W. J. (2004). An inexpensive alternative to commercial infrared sensors. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 3, A1-A3.
• Wilson, W. J. (2004). A comparison of two programs for the control of behavioral experiments. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 2, R3-R5.
• Wilson. W. J. (2002).  How we remember him (Remembrances of Boguslaw Zernicki).  Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 62, ix.
• Wilson, W. J., Ogg, J. A., & Marsack, K. (2000).  Acute ginkgo biloba facilitates decision-making in a working memory task in rats.  Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 60, 511.
• Vilensky, J.A., Gilman, S., Dunn, E.A., & Wilson, W.J. (1997). Utilization of the Denny-Brown collection: Differential recovery of forelimb and hind limb stepping after extensive unilateral cerebral lesions. Behavioural Brain Research, 82, 223-233.
• Wilson, W. J. (1996). The phi-maze: A versatile automated T-maze for learning and memory experiments in the rat. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28, 360-364.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1995). Perseverative errors and reversal of a visual discrimination following basal forebrain lesions in the rat. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 55, 295-299.
• Zielinski, K., Werka, T., Wilson, W. J., & Nikolaev, E. (1995). Inhibition of delay of the two-way avoidance response and warning signal salience. Animal Learning & Behavior, 23, 438-446.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1994). Cholinergic manipulations and passive avoidance in the rat: State dependency and acquisition to criterion. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 54, 377-381.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1992). Catechollision: A game that teaches catecholamine synthesis for IBM-PCs and compatibles. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 24, 101-102.
• Wilson, W. J. (1991). Negative reinforcement [Letter to the editor]. Science, 254, 1566-1567.
• Wilson, W. J. (1991). Instructor's manual with test item file: Drugs and human behavior (Palfai, T., & Jankiewicz, H.). Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown.
• Wilson, W. J., & Hall, J. C. (1988). Lesions of the mesolimbic dopamine system disrupt signaled escape responses in the rat. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 48, 117-121.
• Soltysik, S. S., Dess, N., Wilson, W. J., Matochik, J. A., & Berg, S. (1988). Procedure and reliability of conditioned respiratory suppression. Animal Learning & Behavior, 16, 177-184.
• Lai, Y. Y., Siegel, J. M., & Wilson, W. J. (1987). Effect of blood pressure on medial medulla-induced muscle atonia. American Journal of Physiology, 252, H1249-H1257.
• Wilson, W. J., & Tannehill, V. L. (1987). Ventral tegmental area lesions do not enhance appetitive classically conditioned responses in the rat. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 47, 55-59.
• Wilson, W. J., & Baeske, E. G. (1987). Ventral tegmental area lesions differentially affect responses controlled by CS-US contiguity and response-reinforcer contingency in the rat. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 47, 83-91.
• Wilson, W. J., & Ostergren, L. (1986). Brainscape! A Pascal adventure in neuroanatomy for IBM-PCs and compatibles. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 18, 478-479.
• Wilson, W. J., & Soltysik, S. S. (1985). Pharmacological manipulations of the nucleus accumbens: Effects on classically conditioned responses and locomotor activity in cats. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 45, 91-105.
• Siegel, J. M., Wilson, W. J., & Tomaszewski, K. S. (1984). Effect of blood pressure changes on atonia produced by stimulation of the medial medulla (Abstract). Sleep Research, 13, 39.
• Soltysik, S.S., Nicholas, T., & Wilson, W. J. (1984). Postnatal development of respiratory responses during aversive classical conditioning in cats. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science, 19, 169-181.
• Nicholas, T., Wolfe, G. E., Soltysik, S. S., Wilson, W. J., & Abraham, P. (1983). Postnatal development of heart rate patterns elicited by an aversive CS and US in cats. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science, 18, 144-153.
• Wilson, W. J. (1983). Nucleus accumbens inhibits specific motor but not nonspecific classically conditioned responses. Brain Research Bulletin, 10, 505-515.
• Soltysik, S. S., Wolfe, G. E., Nicholas, T., Wilson, W. J., & Garcia-Sanchez, J. L. (1983). Blocking of inhibitory conditioning within a serial CS-CI compound: Maintenance of an acquired behavior without a reinforcer. Learning and Motivation, 14, 1-29.
• Wilson, W. J., & Butcher, L. L. (1980). A potential shock-reducing contingency in the back-shock technique: Implications for learned helplessness. Animal Learning & Behavior, 8, 435-440.
• Eison, M. S., Wilson, W. J., & Ellison, G. D. (1978). A refillable system for the continuous administration of amphetamine: Effects upon social behavior in a rat colony. Communications in Psychopharmacology, 2, 151-157.

Web Pages & Electronically Published Material:

• Wilson, W. J. (2005). Tristate (plus) Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior Home Page [Web page: www.tristateplus.org]. Albion, MI: Author.
• Wilson, W. J. (2003).  George Windholz [Web page: www.pavlovian.org/windholzbiblio.htm]. Albion, MI: Author.
• Wilson, W. J. (2001). The Pavlovian Society Home Page [World Wide Web site: www.pavlovian.org]. Albion, MI: The Pavlovian Society.
• Wilson, W. J. (1999). Albion College Neuroscience Concentration Home Page [World Wide Web site: http://www.albion.edu/neurosci]. Albion, MI: Albion College.
• Wilson, W. J. (1995). Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Home Page [World Wide Web site: http://www.albion.edu/fun]. Fort Wayne, IN: IPFW. [Note: I no longer maintain the official web site for FUN.]

Software:

(Note: italicized names are undergraduates.)

• Wilson, W. J. (1993). CERCLE: Conditioned Emotional Response Computerized Laboratory Environment [Computer program]. Warsaw, Poland: Author.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1990). Catechollision [Computer program]. Fort Wayne, IN: Author.
• Wilson, W. J., & Ostergren, L. A. (1985), Brainscape: An Adventure in Neuroanatomy [Computer program]. Fort Wayne, IN: Purdue Research Foundation.

Presentations:

• Anderson, M. L. & Wilson, W. J. (2006) Effects of dentate gyrus and CA1 lesions on trace appetitive conditioning in rats. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Philadelphia, PA.
• Wilson, W. J., & Anderson, M. L. (2006) Visually-guided and working-memory Barnes maze performance of rats with dentate gyrus, CA1, or sham lesions. To be presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA.
• Wilson, W. J. (2006). Behavioral neuroscience research on a shoestring budget. Presented at the Great Lakes College Association Neuroscience Conference, Granville, OH.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cottone, J. E. (2005). The Hole Escape Board: A simple apparatus for learning and memory studies in the rat. Presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
• Wilson, W. J. (2005). Getting Into and Surviving Graduate School. Invited presentation at NIH- and SfN-sponsored workshop on Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics, Washington, D.C. [Also invited to present again at the 2006 meeting in Atlanta, GA]
• Anderson, M. L., Busuito, C. M., Goodyear, D. S., & Wilson, W. J. (2005). Within-subject comparison of appetitive delay and trace Pavlovian conditioning in the rat: Effects of scopolamine. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Anaheim, CA.
• Busuito, C. M., Goodyear, D. S., Anderson, M. L., & Wilson, W. J. (2005). Within-subject comparison of appetitive delay and trace Pavlovian conditioning in the rat: Effects of medial septal lesions. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Anaheim, CA.
• Goodyear, D. S., Anderson, M. L., Busuito, C. L., & Wilson, W. J. (2005). Within-subject comparison of appetitive delay and trace Pavlovian conditioned inhibitors in the rat: Effects of scopolamine. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Anaheim, CA.
• M. L. Anderson, C. M. Busuito, D.S. Goodyear, L.M Kohler, E. H. Shin, W. J. Wilson. (2005). Conditioned inhibition and protection from extinction of autoshaped nosepoke responses in the rat: Work in progress. Presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Tri-State Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior.  Windsor, Ontario.
• Wilson, W. J. (2004). Instrumental conditioning in Pavlov's laboratory as shown in Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain. Presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Baltimore, MD.
• Chenoweth, A. C., Shin, E. H., Busuito, C. M., Anderson, M., & Wilson, W. J. (2004). Differentiation of auditory CS+ and CS- by rats in a runway-based Pavlovian conditioning task with self-initiated trials: A follow-up study.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Baltimore, MD.
• Wilson, W. J. (2004). Pudovkin's "Mekhanikha Golovnovo Mozga [Mechanics of the Brain] - A feature-length 1926 film about neurophysiology, Pavlov's studies, animal behavior, and human development.  Presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
• W. J. Wilson (2004). Higher resolution procedures for the examination of conditioned inhibition.  Presented as the 17th annual meeting of the Tri-State Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior.  Kent, OH. <pdf>
• W. J. Wilson (2004). Neuroscience concentration at Albion College: New intitiatives for teaching undergraduate neuroscience. Presented at the Spring Meeting of the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs.  Bethesda, MD. <pdf>
• W. J. Wilson. (2003).  Sto lat: Konorski's centenary. Presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Bloomington, IN.
• Chenoweth, A. M., Hodges, J. P., & Wilson, W. J. (2003). Differentiation of CS+ and CS- by rats in a runway-based Pavlovian conditioning task. Presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Bloomington, IN.
• West, S. M., & Wilson, W. J. (2003). Conditioned inhibition of already-elicited autoshaped CRs in the rat. Presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, Bloomington, IN.
• W. J. Wilson, K. A. Freeman, & L. J. Paskvan. (2003) Differential effects of ephedrine and caffeine on locomotion and anxiety in rats. To be presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
• Ogg, J. A., & Wilson, W. J. (2002). Chronic ginkgo biloba decouples acquisition from the effects of prior experience in rats.  Presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, FL.
• Wilson, W. J., & Linz, H. E. (2001). Experimental neurosis in the rat? Effect of an increasingly difficult auditory differentiation.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society, New Brunswick, NJ.
• Wilson, W. J., Storbeck, S. J., Diponio, S. E., Meissner, R. C., & Hancock, C. M. (2001) Potential influences of protriptyline on running speed of rats in a “Crespi effect” study.  Presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
• Wilson, W. J., & King, M. A. (2000). Evidence that muscarinic M1 receptors are not involved in working memory in the rat.  Presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
• Marsack, K., Ogg, J., & Wilson, W. J. (2000). Enhancement of decision-making and memory(?) by Ginkgo biloba in rats: Preliminary results.  Presented at Project Kaleidoscope 2000 Summer Institute: Psychology I poster session, Keystone CO.
• Wilson, W. J. (2000). Undergraduate education as a career option.  Invited paper presentad at the NIMH-sponsored 6th annual workshop on Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics. Vail, CO.
• Wilson, W. J., & Swinehart, S. A. (1999). Analysis of scopolamine-induced "perseverative errors" in rat spatial alternation. Presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami, FL.
• Wilson, W. J., Bobay, K. S., & Gilbert, S. A. (1998). Differential dose-dependent effects of scopolamine on reversal of a spatial discrimination in rats. Presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA.
• Wilson, W. J. (1998) Passively avoiding the alternatives: Wandering toward an understanding of cholinergic involvement in memory. Invited keynote address given at Albion College's 4th Annual Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, Albion, MI.
• Wilson, W. J. (1998). Neuroscience: Bringing recent advances into the classroom. Invited presentation given at the 20th National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.
• Wilson, W. J., Hansen, E. A., & Leto, A. G. (1997). Long-term scopolamine pre-exposure interferes with spatial alternation in rats: Increased sensitivity to reduction of reinforcement? Presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
• Wilson, W. J. (1997). Neurotransmitters, receptors, and post-synaptic potentials: Communication in a real neural network. Invited presentation at Neural Networks and Brain Signals Symposium, Ft Wayne, IN.
• Wilson, W. J., Lyons, G. S., Griffith, M. L., Vanhorn, T., & Dillman, J. D. (1996). Within-subject, within-session analysis of scopolamine's effect on spatial alternation and visual discrimination in the rat. Presented at the 26th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
• Wilson, W. J., Bradtmiller, S, A., Felton, M. L., Lyons, G. D., Shaffer, L. A., & Zieles, A. S. (1995). Same-session analysis of working and reference memory in the rat: Procedure. Presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
• Wilson, W. J., Peters, D. W., Felton, M. L., & Galloway, P. H. (1994). Delayed spatial alternation performance of rats in a phi-maze: Scopolamine effects. Presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami Beach, FL.
• Wilson, W. J. (1994). Delayed matching-to-sample and delayed spatial alternation in the rat. Paper presented at the Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland (June 8).
• Wilson, W. J., & Steinbronn, N. C. (1993). Dose-dependent disruption by scopolamine of spatial working memory performance of rats in a phi-maze. Presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
• Wilson, W. J., & Steinbronn, N. C. (1993). Spatial working memory deficits following central muscarinic blockade in the rat. Presented at Neuroscience in Central Europe: Workshop 1, Budapest, Hungary (April 26).
• Wilson, W. J. (1993). Cholinergic mechanisms of learning and memory in the rat. Invited lecture at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland (February 10).
• Wilson, W. J., Steinbronn, N. C., Lopshire, J. C., Galloway, P. H., Kellenberger, S. A., Hartman, A. M., & Bennett, R. L. (1992). Differences in spatial and visual working memory performance of rats in a phi-maze. Presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, CA.
• Wilson, W. J. (1992). The phi-maze: A novel device for the assessment of working and reference memory in rats. Presented at the 9th Regional Spring Meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Indianapolis, IN.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1991). Catechollision: A game of catecholamine synthesis. Presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC. [Also presented at the 21st annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA. 1991.]
• Wilson, W. J. (1991). Neurons, neurotransmitters, & behavior. Invited workshop for the Indiana Transactional Analysis Association, Indianapolis, IN.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1990). Dose-dependent effects of pilocarpine on step-through passive avoidance in the rat. Presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, St. Louis, MO.
• Wilson, W. J., & Cook, J. A. (1989). Acquisition and reversal of visual discrimination in rats: Effects of cholinergic manipulations. Presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Atlanta, GA.
• Wilson, W. J., & Hall, J. C. (1989). Cholinergic manipulations and passive avoidance in the rat: State dependency and acquisition to criterion. Presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Phoenix, AZ. [Also presented at the 6th Regional Spring Meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Indianapolis, IN.]
• Wilson, W. J., & Hall, J. C. (1988). Pilocarpine during acquisition disrupts subsequent reversal in n. basalis-lesioned rats: Preliminary data. Presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Also presented at the 5th Regional Spring Meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Indianapolis, IN.]
• Wilson, W. J., & Hall, J. C. (1987). 6-OHDA lesions of the ventral tegmental area affect signaled escape responding, but not classically conditioned responses in the rat. Presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA. [Also presented at the 4th Regional Spring Meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, Indianapolis, IN]
• Wilson, W. J., & Tannehill, V. L. (1986). Effects of ventral tegmental area lesions on autoshaped lever press responses in the rat. Presented at the 16th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
• Wilson, W. J., Tannehill, V. L., Baeske, E. G., & Soltysik, S. S. (1986) Involvement of mesolimbic dopamine system in aversive and appetitive classically conditioned motor responses. Presented at the 3rd Regional Spring Meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. Indianapolis, IN.
• Wilson, W. J., & Baeske, E. G. (1985). Involvement of the dopaminergic projection from ventral tegmental area to nucleus accumbens in the motivation underlying two-way avoidance in the rat. Presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Dallas, TX.
• Wilson, W. J., Dess, N., K., & Soltysik, S. S. (1984). Pharmacological manipulations of the nucleus accumbens: Effects on conditioned inhibition and classically conditioned responses. Presented at the 14th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, CA.
• Siegel, J. M., Tomaszewski, K. S., Wilson, W. J., Nienhuis, R., & Morrison, A. R. (1984). Relation of blood pressure to REM sleep atonia and atonia produced by stimulation of the medial medulla. Presented at the 14th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, CA.
• Wilson, W. J., Siegel, J. M., Tomaszewski, K. S., & Nienhuis, R. (1983). Factors affecting atonia produced by electrical stimulation of the medial medulla in cats. Presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Boston, MA.
• Soltysik, S. S., Nicholas, T., & Wilson, W. J. (1983). Ontogeny of defensive classically conditioned respiratory and vocal responses in cats. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Diego, CA.
• Wilson, W. J., & Soltysik, S. S. (1982). Dopamine in the nucleus accumbens modulates classically conditioned defensive responses in the cat. Presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Minneapolis, MN.
• Wilson, W. J. (1981). Nucleus accumbens and autonomic and skeletal motor responses. Presented at the symposium Affect and Action: Relationships between limbic and extrapyramidal function. 89th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.
• Nicholas, T., Soltysik, S. S., Wolfe, G. E., & Wilson, W. J. (1981). Protection from extinction by blocking of inhibitory conditioning. Presented at the 89th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.
• Wilson, W. J., & Thomas, E. (1977). The effects of septal lesions on learned helplessness in the rat. Presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Manuscripts in Preparation:

• Wilson, W. J. (in preparation). Konorski's lasitng contributions: A centenary evaluation.
• Wilson, W. J. (in preparation). Inexpensive behavioral apparatuses: Mazes and runways.

Courses Taught:

• Elementary Psychology
• Statistics
• Psychobiology
• Introduction to Neuroscience
• Psychopharmacology
• Animal Models of Psychopathology
• Science & Pseudoscience

Service to the Discipline:

• Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (1995, 2004):
  • Invited Panelist - presentation on Undergraduate Education in Neuroscience.
• Member of External Review Teams examining
  • Kenyon College Neuroscience Program (2002).
  • Carthage College Psychology Department (2001).
  • Colorado College Psychology Department (1997).
• Pavlovian Society (an international group):
  • March 2002 to present: Executive Committee member & Secretary/Treasurer.
  • August 2001 to present: Webmaster.
• Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (a national group):
  • November 1997 to 2000: Advisor.
  • November 1996 to November 1997: Past-President.
  • November 1995 to November 1996: President.
  • November 1994 to November 1995: President-elect.
  • November 1993 to November 1994: Secretary & Councillor.
• Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines (1995):
  • Organizing Committee.
  • Co-Chair - Education Subcommittee.
  • Co-Leader - Roundtable Discussion of Mentoring.
• IPFW Chapter of Sigma Xi:
  • President 1990 - 1991, 1998 - 1999.

Service to the College: 

• Curriculum & Resources Committee (Albion) [Chair 2004-2005]
• Judicial Board member (Chair of Academic Infractions Division) (Albion)
• Faculty Affairs Committee (1 semester - Albion).
• Sexual Harassment Hearing Committee (Albion).
• Premedical and Allied Health Studies Institute implementation committee (Albion)
• Speaker of the Purdue Faculty (IPFW)
• University Committees on which I served for more than 2 years while at IPFW:
  • Purdue Faculty Grievance Committee [Chaired 3 years]
  • Northeastern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair [Director 2 years]
  • IPFW Faculty Senate
  • Freshman Seminar Committee
  • Academic Appeals Committee
  • School of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee
  • School of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Review Committee
  • Committee on the Care, Use, and Housing of Laboratory Animals
• Departmental Committees (IPFW):
  • Student Affairs Committee [Chaired 5 years]
  • Advisor to the Psychology Club
  • Various Search and Screen Committees

Membership in Professional Societies:

• Pavlovian Society
• Society for Neuroscience
• Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (past-president)
• International Brain Research Organization
• Sigma Xi

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