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Princy Quadros Mennella, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology. Dr. Mennella graduated with highest honors from the University of Richmond with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Biology. She received her doctorate in Neuroscience and Behavior from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she studied sex differences in the regulation of progesterone receptors during brain development in a rodent animal model. Throughout her 22+ career in higher education, Dr. Mennella has held positions teaching at a large state university, an HBCU and an all-women's liberal arts university. She has extensive experience mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students in neuroscience research. Prior to her arrival at Westfield State University, she served as the founding director of the Neuroscience Program at Bay Path University, where several graduates from her program either entered the medical profession or doctoral programs in neuroscience. At Westfield State University, as the resident neuroscientist in the department, Dr. Mennella teaches several courses within the psychology curriculum but also Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology. Under her guidance, Westfield State University students regularly present their research at local, regional and national conferences. Her current research uses the fruit fly as an animal model and she is now focused on the interaction between the circadian rhythm system and anxiety or alcoholism risk as well as traumatic brain injury.

• University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Behavior, 1998–2004

• University of Richmond, B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Biology, Summa Cum Laude, 1994–1998