Current Students

Entering fall 2017

Kendra Stansak

• Research mentor: Brad Walters, PhD, Department of Otolaryngology
• Research focus: I am interested in disease states of the inner ear. My current focus is on genetic and environmental risk factors associated with formations of neoplastic masses on or around the cochlea and cranial nerve VIII.
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, St. Vincent College, Psychology

Entering fall 2018

Jaren Reeves-Darby

• Research mentor: Donna M. Platt, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, Millsaps College, Neuroscience & Cognitive Studies

Entering fall 2019

Loc Pham

• Research mentor: Kevin Freeman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, University of Alabama – Birmingham, Neuroscience

Entering fall 2020

William Doyle

• Research mentor: Sally Huskinson, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Research focus: I am interested in the role of environmental factors in substance use disorders. My current focus is on the role of uncertainty in negative consequences as a contributor to the development and maintenance of substance use disorders.
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BA, University of Mississippi, Biochemistry 

Tanya Pareek

• Research mentor: Barbara Gisabella, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, Millsaps College, Biology; MS, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Biomedical Sciences

Entering fall 2021

Daniel Borgatti

• Research mentor: James Rowlett, PhD, and Lais Berro, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BA, Framingham State University, Psychology

Jena' Mazique

• Research mentor: Hong Zhu, PhD, Department of Otolaryngology
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, William Carey University, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology

Jon Person

• Research mentor: Eric Vallender, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BA, University of Mississippi, Biological Science, Psychology; MS, Mississippi College, Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Entering fall 2022

Jobin Babu

• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, University of Houston, Kinesiology-Exercise Science; MS, Mississippi College, Biology

Jacob Haskell

• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, Kent State University, Psychology

Entering fall 2023

Annie Hollis

• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, Mississippi University for Women, Psychology

A'Kaychia Lowery

• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, Delta State University, Biology; MS, Delta State University, Natural Science

Karen Saffold

• Undergraduate/graduate degree: BS, Mississippi University for Women, Biological Sciences

Youness Touissi

• Undergraduate/graduate degree: MD, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Medicine