With any research project, there’s the potential for lots of things to go wrong. Being bitten, however? It’s a less common worry.
But when you’re working with rats, as Ioanna Giannakou ’23 did in her summer Mentored Advanced Project (MAP), it’s a possibility worth considering.
This summer, Giannakou worked with Nancy Rempel-Clower, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, studying the effects of adolescent stress on anxiety and depression-like behaviors in rats.
Read more on the Grinnell College website
Original article published October 19, 2023 by Anika Jane Beamer ’22