Resume

• 2008

  Mount Holyoke College

  South Hadley

  Massachusetts

  Courses taught: Biological Psychology

  Behavioral Neuroscience lab

  Cognitive Psychology

  and Neuroscience of Memory and Cognitive Processes seminar; supervised independent research of undergraduate students conducting human research investigating face processing and animal research investigating Alzheimer’s disease; served as faculty Psi Chi co-adviser; and served on the college Science Safety Committee.

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Mount Holyoke College

• 2007

  Assumption College

  Stephen F. Austin State University

  Westfield State University

  Westfield

  Massachusetts

  Course taught: Drugs and Behavior.

  Adjunct Professor

  Westfield State University

  Worcester

  Massachusetts

  Courses taught: General Psychology

  Biological Psychology

  Psychology of Learning

  and Cognitive Psychology.

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Assumption College

  Nacogdoches

  Texas

  Faculty

  Stephen F. Austin State University

  Milton

  Massachusetts

  Department of Psychology

  Faculty (Psychology)

  Curry College

  Lincoln

  Nebraska

  Investigated acquisition and extinction of the conditioned stimulus (CS) effects of nicotine; introduced sex difference research into the lab; demonstrated nicotine’s ability to serve as a conditioned stimulus in female rats and that the drug varenicline shares stimulus effects with nicotine.

  Post-doctoral Scholar (Behavioral Neuropharmacology)

  University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Society for Neuroscience

  American Association for the Advancement of Science

  Animal Behavior Society

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  Graduated with honors.

  Psychology

  Kent State University

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Neuroscience & Behavior

• 2006

  Robert

  Polewan

  Ph.D.

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Curry College

  Amherst

  Massachusetts

  Examined bidirectional interference when a well-practiced action coincided with an important perceptual task.

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Microsoft Office

  Animal Behavior

  Statistical Data Analysis

  Dog Behavior

  Research

  Memory

  Problem Solving

  Psychology

  Experimental Design

  Scientific Presentation

  Higher Education

  Neuroscience

  SPSS

  Life Sciences

  Project Management

  Scientific Writing

  Data Analysis

  Animal Models

  Behavioral Neuropharmacology

  Electrophysiology

  Polewan

  Ph.D.