Students & Alumni

Current Graduate Students:
Meredith Smith – BS ETSU
Jessica Smith – BS Tennessee Tech
Kimberly Thompson – PhD program (Biomedical Sciences), BS & MS
(Biomedical Sciences) ETSU
Sumit Pathy – Public Health Graduate Student on Tuition Scholarship
Current Undergraduate Students:
Julia Lehmann
Tammy Sluder
Lindsay Preskenis
Ayinde Lloyd
Angela Jones
Dwayne Crago
Kaleena Dugger
Laboratory Alumni:
Brianna Sheppard (M. S. 2008) is currently employed in the
laboratory of
John Jones at Johnson City Medical Center as a laboratory technician
Zackary Cope (B. S. Œ05; M. S. 2008) was recently accepted to the PhD
Neuroscience program at the Medical University of South Carolina in
Charleston, SC.
Yoko Ogawa Henderson (M. S. 2007) is entering her 2nd year in the Behavioral
Neuroscience program at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.
Ian Longacre (B. S. 2007) has transferred from the University of South
Carolina to the Emory University Behavioral Neuroscience PhD program.
Matthew Lazenka (B. S. 2007) is entering his 2nd year at the Virginia
Commonwealth Univ. PhD Neuroscience program in Richmond, VA.
Matthew Rice (B. S. 2006) was recently accepted to the University of
Alabama-Birmingham PhD Neuroscience program.
Amanda Maple (M. S. 2006) was recently accepted to the Arizona State
University PhD Behavioral Neuroscience program in Tempe, AZ.
Marla Perna (M. S. 2006) is currently a graduate student in the PhD
Biomedical Sciences program at ETSU.
Justin Gass (B. S. 2001, PhD U. of South Caroina 2006) is a postdoctoral
fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Stephanie Sharp (Thacker) (B. S. 2001, M.A. 2004) is employed at Tennessee
Donor Services in Knoxville, TN as an office manager
Ivy Click (B. S. 2001, M. A. 2004) is employed in the Department of Family
Medicine at ETSU as a Grants coordinator.
Andrew Hughes
(B.S. 2008) is employed by Siemens Biomedical in PETNet