Alex Rich
Biography
Biography
Alex is a graduate student in the Levy Decision Neuroscience Lab at Yale. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she worked with Drs. Ann Haynos and Lisa Anderson to investigate decision-making and ruminative processes in eating disorders. This work, in tandem with her time in Dr. Ben Hayden's lab examining the neural basis of decision-making in rhesus monkeys, lent to her current interests in translational neuroscience research examining transdiagnostic properties of cognition and behavior. Now as a graduate student in Ifat Levy's lab, she plans to conduct her thesis research on the neural underpinnings of value updating for personally salient foods in obesity with binge eating. Outside of the lab, Alex is passionate about advocating for community well-being and support at the program, university, and national levels. She has served in leadership roles on the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program Executive Committee, the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and the Graduate Research and Development (GRAD) Coalition which supports the work of the U.S. House of Representatives GRAD Caucus.
Education & Training
- BSUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Neuroscience (2021)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award | American Institute of Biological Sciences | 2024 |
NIH-NINDS T32 ‘Neurobiology of Cortical Systems’ Training Grant | Yale University Department of Neuroscience | 2023 |
Gruber Science Fellowship | Gruber Foundation | 2021 |
Tom Burnett Leadership Program Award | University of Minnesota | 2021 |
Kenneth Bachofer and Linda Marie Scholarship | University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences | 2020 |
President’s Student Leadership & Service Award | University of Minnesota, Office of the President | 2020 |
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Award: The Role of Rumination and Positive Beliefs About Rumination in Eating Pathology | University of Minnesota, Office of Undergraduate Research Opportunities | 2019 |
National Scholarship | University of Minnesota | 2017 |