University of Wales, Swansea
Joint Honours Courses in Biological Sciences and Psychology (1990-91)
Academic Year in Britain Study Abroad Exchange Program

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science in Biology-General (January 1993)
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (January 1993)

University of Arizona, Tucson

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (in progress)

Honors and awards:

Chancellor's Scholar and member of the Campus Honors Program (1988)

• 100 students admitted annually out of more than 5,000 entering freshmen
  
Jonathan Baldwin Turner Scholar (1988)

• a $2,500 merit scholarship award given by the College of Agriculture
  
Campus Honors Program Summer Research Award (1990)

• a competitive $1,000 award through the Campus Honors Program
Monsanto Summer Research Fellowship Award (1990)
• recipient of one of five $2,400 awards given through the Biotechnology Center at the University of Illinois
Graduation with Honors (1993)
• by fulfilling interdisciplinary requirements of the Campus Honors Program
Graduation with High Distinction (1993)
• based on submission of an undergraduate thesis to the School of Life Sciences

Undergraduate Research Assistant (June 1988 - December 1992)
Dr. Lila O. Vodkin, Professor
Department of Crop Sciences
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

• conducted research in plant molecular genetics

Research Assistant (January 1993 - July 1993)
Dr. Lila O. Vodkin, Professor
Department of Crop Sciences
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

• conducted research in plant molecular genetics

Dr. Marie T. Banich, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology & the Beckman Institute
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL


• conducted research in cognitive neuroscience

Graduate Research Assistant (August 1993 - Present)
Dr. Chad J. Marsolek, Assistant Professor
Psychology Department & Program in Neuroscience
Univeristy of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• conducted research in cognitive neuroscience

Nicholas, C. D., Lindstrom, J. T., & Vodkin, L. O. (1993). Variation of cell wall proteins in soybean lines with anthocyanin mutations. Plant Molecular Biology, 21, 145-156.

Banich M. T., & Nicholas, C. D. (in press). Integration of reading processes between the hemispheres. In M. Beeman & C. Chiarello (Eds.), Getting it right: The cognitive neuroscience of right hemisphere language comprehension. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Marsolek, C. J., Schacter, D. L., & Nicholas, C. D. (in press). Form-specific visual priming for new associations in the right cerebral hemisphere. Memory & Cognition.

Banich, M. T., Nicholas, C. D., & Karol, D. L. (1996). Putting the pieces together: Integration of information between the cerebral hemispheres. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Nicholas, C. D., & Marsolek, C. J., (1996). Differential interhemispheric transfer for abstract and specific visual-form information. Manuscript in preparation.

Vodkin, L. O., Lindstrom, J. T., Nicholas, C. D., & Todd J. T. (1992, April). Cell wall proteins in soybean isogenic lines. Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Keystone, Colorado. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 16F, 236.

Nicholas, C. D., Lindstrom, J. T., Schmidt, J. S., & Vodkin, L. O. (1992, July). Quantitative and qualitative variation of cell wall proteins in soybean lines with anthocyanin mutations. Poster session presented at the 4th Biennial Conference on the Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Soybean: Ames, Iowa.

Banich, M. T., Nicholas, C. D., & Karol., D. L. (1994, February). Varieties of interhemispheric interaction. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Marsolek, C. J., Ecker, B. C., Ewald, B. J., Stoltz, E. L., Wright, M. E., Nicholas, C. D. (1995, November). Letter-case similarity and backward pattern masking modulated form-specific priming in the cerebral hemispheres. Poster session presented at the 36th annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society: Los Angelas, CA.

Nicholas, C. D., & Marsolek, C. J. (1996, March). Differential interhemispheric transfer for abstract and specific visual-form information. Poster session presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.