Faculty

Neuroscience Program

With 15 full-time participating faculty, Bucknell has one of the largest neuroscience programs among peer institutions.

Elizabeth Capaldi Evans
Associate Professor of Biology & Animal Behavior
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Research: neuroethology of social insects, animal behavior

David W. Evans
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Boston University
Research: developmental psychopathology, brain-behavior links in compulsive-spectrum disorders using event-related potentials.

Owen Floody
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. The Rockefeller University
Research: neural and neurochemical control of reproductive behavior and communication

Andrea Halpern
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research: cognition and cognitive neuroscience of memory, music cognition, aging

Peter Judge
Associate Professor of Psychology and Animal Behavior
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Research: primate cognition, reconciliation behaviors

James Lavine
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. Princeton University
Research: syntactic theory

Heidi Lorimor
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research: psycholinguistics

Elizabeth Marin
Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Standford University
Research: developmental neurobiology in Drosophila melanogaster

Kevin Myers
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Duke University
Research: animal learning and motivation

Kathleen Page
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Research: cell and sensory physiology

DeeAnn Reeder
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of California at Davis
Research: behavioral neuroendocrinology, mammalian behavior

Jennie Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research: neurobiology of behavior; role of oxytocin

Ruth Tincoff
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Research: developmental psycholinguistics

Joseph Tranquillo
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. Duke University
Research: neural electrophysiology

T. Joel Wade
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of North Carolina
Research: evolutionary psychology