Catie is a graduate student on the General track. She recieved her B.A. in Psychology from UNCW in 2011, and has experience in the animal care and training field, with dolphins, birds, dogs, cats and a few exotic mammals. She is a first year graduate student working with Dr. Bruce with a primary research interest in animal cognition and memory. She is currently working on multiple studies in the labratory while she focuses on her thesis topic. After UNCW, Catie plans on pursuing a doctoral program in animal cognition.