The first time I got excited about electrophysiology was while I was recording hippocampal neurons in freely moving rats, in collaboration with Howard Eichenbaum, to look for a correlation between cell firing and behavior. It still excites me when I hear a cell firing. Here at Wellesley we do intracellular recording in several courses and it is my favorite experience to share this enthusiasm with students.

In 1997 I edited a lab manual called Discovering Neurons, the Experimental Basis of Neuroscience. This was coauthored by Barb Beltz and Joanne Berger-Sweeney, both from Wellesley College. Its mission was to disseminate information on laboratory exercises that are "state of the art" and work well at the undergraduate and graduate level.

In 2003 I was awarded an NSF educational materials development grant with Julio Ramirez, of Davidson College and Bruce Johnson of Cornell University. We developed the web site The Neuron Connection, which continues the work started in Discovering Neurons. This can be found at http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Concepts/Html/theneuronconnection.html

My interest in lab development is continuing with a new project for distribution of labs in neuroscience. 'on line' with Sinauer Associates Inc. Carol Ann Paul has been an instructor, teaching laboratories for many years, first at Williams College, then at Harvard University and finally here at Wellesley College where she started in 1983. She is continually involved in creating new and exciting laboratory experiences in Neuroscience and Physiology and updating existing laboratories.

I started in a MS program at Boston University School of Public Health in 1995. My master’s thesis: Association of Alcohol Comsumption with Brain Volume in the Framingham Study is now published in Archives of Neurology, vol 65 (NO.10,) OCT 2008. pp 1363-1367.

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