About Us

President

RJ Shah,Trinity ’23

Email: rjs79@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience

RJ is a senior studying Neuroscience and minoring in Biology. He works in Dr. Cynthia Kuhn’s lab in the Medical School’s Pharmacology Department where he is currently studying how prolonged cocaine use may alter baseline affect in rat models. In his free time, RJ is hooping.

Vice-President

Katherine Wang, Trinity ’23

Email: katherine.w.wang@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience

Katherine is a senior from New York City majoring in neuroscience and minoring in linguistics and chemistry. She is a part of Dr. Liping Feng’s Lab studying the effect of PFAS on maternal health and fetal brain development. She is also a member of the Language, Music, and Dementia Bass Connections team under Dr. Edna Andrews. For fun, she enjoys figure skating and listening to audiobooks.

Secretary

Chloe Schaefgen, Trinity ’23

Email: cas185@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience B.S.

Chloe is a senior studying Neuroscience with minors in Economics and French. She works in Dr. Diego Bohórquez’s laboratory in the Duke School of Medicine where she is studying the gut-brain pathway, specifically focused on pathogen sensing. She is planning on pursuing a PhD in neurobiology after undergrad. When she is not in class or lab, you can find Chloe listening to podcasts, hanging out with friends, or watching Ted Lasso.

Treasurer

Gayatri Chintala, Trinity ’24

Email: cas185@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience

Gayatri is a junior who lives in Virginia. She is a Neuroscience major on the pre-med track. She works in the Floyd lab studying mouse models of brain metastasis via immunotherapy. She is also a member of the Laboratory art in practice bass connection project. In her free time Gayatri also loves to perform spoken word poetry, read, and watch old movies.

Publicity & Web Chair

Dipali Arora, Trinity ’24

Email:da197@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience

Dipali is a junior studying Neuroscience and minoring in Global Health. She is at Dr. Evans lab in the Medical School Cell Biology Department where she looks at the autophagy pathways in neurons and its association with diseases such as Parkinsons and ALS. In her free time, she loves to read and watch a good rom com.

Upperclassman
Representative

Julia Leeman, Trinity ’24

Email: jml155@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience and Music

Julia is a junior from Charlotte, NC double majoring in Neuroscience and Music. She works in the O-Lab studying auditory imagery of speech and non-speech sounds. She also loves to sing and is involved in Duke’s Opera Theater and Chorale. She hopes to become a professor because she loves to learn and teach.

Upperclassman
Representative

Cordelia Hume, Trinity ’24

Email: clh92@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience

Cordelia is a junior from the Durham area majoring in Neuroscience with minors in Chemistry and Biology. She currently works in the Chiba-Falek Lab studying the APOE genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer’s Disease. After a gap year Cordelia hopes to attend medical school and potentially graduate school. Her hobbies include cooking, running, knitting, and hanging out with friends.

Underclassman
Representative

Carlos Montes, Trinity ’25

Email: cm600@duke.edu

                Major(s): Neuroscience and Music.                                                                                                                             

Carlos is a sophomore from McHenry, IL, double majoring in neuroscience and music. He works under Dr. Laurie Sanders researching protein interactions related to Parkinson’s Disease, and he recently joined Dr. Tobias Overath’s lab where he will work on musical perception projects in the future. After Duke, he hopes to attend medical school and specialize in pediatric neurosurgery. Outside of academics, he enjoys playing and watching soccer, and running.

Peer Mentoring
Co-President

Paige Sevchik, Trinity ’24

Email: pas68@duke.edu

Major(s): Neuroscience and Spanish

Paige is a junior double majoring in Neuroscience and Spanish. She currently works in the Adcock Lab studying how curiosity and surprise impact information seeking and memory formation, as well as in the O-Lab studying pre-stimulus EEG as a measuring of auditory ‘internal noise’ related to hidden hearing loss. Outside of lab, you can find Paige hanging out with the puppies at Duke’s Canine Cognition Center or trying to find the best matcha latte in Durham. After undergrad, she is planning on pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience.