Congratulations to several PPN undergraduate students who were honored recently with a Magellan or Honors College research award. Below is a list of those students, along with their mentor and award information:

• Reese Farnsworth (Larry Reagan mentor): Magellan Scholar Research Grant entitled "Magellan Farnsworth Three-dimensional reconstructions of hippocampal neurons of obese male and female rats" 
• Dear Sam Walther (Ana Pocivavsek mentor):  Magellan Scholar Research Grant entitled “The Effects of Prenatal Kynurenic Acid Exposure on Sleep Quality Across Early Development"
• Nicholas Dolan (Norma Frizzell mentor): Magellan Scholar Research Grant entitled "Magellan-Dolan-Investigating the Effect of Dimethyl Fumarate on Neurofilament Integrity"
• Gabrielle Wood (Fiona Hollis mentor): Magellan Scholar Research Grant entitled "Establishing Epigenetic Signatures of Stress in the Postpartum Rodent Brain"
• Anna Sikora (Joe McQuail Mentor): Magellan Scholar Research Grant entitled “Serine Metabolism in the Context of Neural Aging and Memory”
• Hunter Bielicki (Susan Wood mentor): Magellan Mini-Grant entitled  “The Role of Locus Coeruleus Inflammation in Stress-related Behavioral Impairments in Females” 
• Taylor Childress (Susan Wood mentor): Honors College Research Grant and a Magellan Mini-Grant entitled  “Inflammatory mechanisms underlying the behavioral and neuronal stress response in females” 
• Caitlyn White (Ana Pocivavsek, Marlene Wilson mentors): Magellan Mini-Grant entitled “Effects of individual differences and sleep deprivation on plasma cholinesterase activity” 
• Sarah Chugh (Susan Wood mentor): Honors College Research Grant for Summer-Fall 2024