A Pennsylvania native, she received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Penn State University. Lauren later earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2012. After completing a two-year postdoctoral research position at the Picower Institute of Learning and Memory at MIT, Lauren will join Ursinus’ Psychology Department’s Neuroscience Program in the fall of 2015.