After earning a BA from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, I went on to earned my Ph.D. specializing in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT. (1995-2000) I completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (2000-2003). I have been at Southwestern University since 2003, where I currently hold the rank of Professor of Psychology, John H. Duncan Chair endowed chair and chair the Neuroscience program. Southwestern University is a selective, nationally ranked liberal arts and science institution. My research involves investigating the neuroendocrinolgy of female sexual motivation in an animal model. I study behavior across the lifespan and have a particular interest in the nexus of sexual reward and drug reward in the brain.