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Carey Wilson ’07 recently traveled to San Diego, Calif., to present her senior honors thesis research at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held from Nov. 3-7. The trip was made possible by a Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) Student Travel Award.
Wilson, who graduated in May with a B.S. in neuroscience, presented her project “A Kiss is Worth a Thousand Words,” which she worked on under the guidance of Wendy Hill, provost and dean of the faculty. The thesis explored the physiological processes associated with kissing and focused on how people can communicate with their partners and themselves through the chemical messengers pheromones and hormones.
Wilson is appreciative of all the faculty members, study participants, and administrative staff who made her research possible. She attributes much of her success to the guidance and support provided by Hill.
“Lafayette, in general, is an environment that promotes learning and the small size allows students to interact with faculty in many departments as well as people in administrative positions,” says Wilson.
“Since I was drawing blood from the participants in my research project, I needed to speak personally with the head of the Institutional Review Board at Lafayette a few times and required assistance from the Bailey Health Center staff. I feel that a larger school would have prevented me from doing such research and personally working with so many different people at the undergraduate level.”
In the fall of 2008, Wilson will attend SUNY Upstate Medical University.