Jasmine working in the Reed Population Ecology and Biology Lab with Bombina orientalis.
Jasmine is from Tucson, Arizona and is currently a junior undergraduate student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon where she is majoring in psychology with an allied field of cognitive science. She is interested in comparative cognition as well as the applications of research in behavioral psychology and its intersections with sensation and perception. Jasmine will begin her undergraduate thesis in the spring of 2016 and she hopes to conduct research with captive animals in the lab.
Jasmine with the star homing pigeon of the Reed Learning and Adaptive Behavior flight cage.
While she is pursuing her B.A. in psychology, Jasmine also works in Reed College’s Learning and Adaptive Behavior Laboratory as an undergraduate research assistant. In the lab, Jasmine is collaborating on the research of social behavior in Long-Evans rats, which she will be presenting a poster on at the 41st annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis.
A newborn Sprague-Dawley rat pup whose eyes have just opened.
Jasmine has traveled to Sichuan, as well as a few other provinces of China in the past, but has never visited Ya’an. Her previous experience traveling in China will make her transition from Portland to Ya’an a little smoother, and she hopes to use her background to help bridge the culture gap. She is excited to have the opportunity to spend an extended period of time experiencing life in Ya’an.
In biology lab.
Help welcome Jasmine to China! She’s leaving in 2 weeks where she’ll meet up with Lauran and start personality studies.
