Laura Bullard (Psychopharmacology, UNCW Graduate Alumni)

    Laura received her B.A. from UNCW in 2006 and her Master's degree in 2009. Laura worked in the psychopharmacology lab for over four years, studying a wide variety of pharmaceuticals including MDMA (ecstasy), Methamphetamine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), and Morphine across a wide variety of spatial (Morris swim task) and non-spatial olfactory  tasks (memory span, repeated acquisitions, and matching-to-sample). For her masters thesis work, Laura studied the effects of NMDA antagonists on an olfactory delayed match-to-sample task in rats. Laura's other psychology interests include behavioral pharmacology, neuroscience, and animal behavior. Currently, Laura is a part time instructor in the Psychology Department at UNCW and teaches an Introduction to Psychology course. In the future, she would like to further her psychology career by getting her PhD in neuropsychology.