Rhonda Kolaric

Rhonda Kolaric is a PhD student in biology and neuroscience at The Graduate Center of City University of New York. Her research background includes addiction, feeding behavior, metabolism, perceptual learning, memory, and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. She is doing her dissertation work at the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY and focuses on understanding how the brain forms and updates the memory of salient events to discriminate between harmful, rewarding, and neutral environments in both healthy and diseased conditions. Rhonda has worked in labs at the New York University School of Medicine, the University of Massachusetts, and Yale University. She received her M.A. in psychology from New York University, where she taught courses in cognitive neuroscience and neurobiology, and earned her B.S. in psychology and behavioral neuroscience as well as a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.