Lucy Scribner

2025 Peak Prize: Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Award Nominee

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

Psychology

Throughout my time at Utah State University, I have shown academic excellence, and am contributing to cutting edge research led by Dr. Amy Odum in a behavior analysis lab, in addition to conducting and leading my own research project funded by the Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities grant, and preparing to continue research and discovery in graduate level studies and potentially a research-based career beyond that. I have dedicated myself completely to learning everything I can about the brain and its processes while maintaining a 3.9 major GPA in Psychology. I have designed, proposed, and received URCO funding to complete my own project investigating delay discounting outcomes on the propensity of nicotine self-administration in rodents. I am currently a Senior Research Assistant working with Dr. Odum on basic research involving nicotine vaping in a pre-clinical model, specifically looking at factors that promote nicotine consumption in order to intervene or prevent electronic cigarette use. I recently got involved in a neuroscience lab led by Dr. Erin Bobeck to work on a project that focuses on characterizing the neural circuitry of pain via animal behavior and molecular techniques. I've also helped write and worked on the projects outlined and discussed in the manuscripts "Zoographics in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: Increasing inclusion of female animals" (Odum et. al., 2024), and "The Rodent Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (RENDS): Description and validation of an apparatus for nose-only e-cigarette aerosol inhalation in freely moving rats" (Odum et. al, under review).