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Kristy Gould
2002 Young Alumna of the Year

Kristy Gould graduated from Dakota Wesleyan with the Class of 1992, but has continued her education ever since. She was a graduate teaching assistant and graduate research assistant with the biology department at the University of Nebraska where she earned a Ph.D. in 1997.

For two years at Cornell University she was a post-doctoral research associate in the psychology department and, in 1999, received a post-doctoral research fellowship. She also served as a guest lecturer on the neurobiology of learning and memory for Cornell.

Currently, Gould is an assistant professor of psychology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where she lives with her 4-year-old daughter, Hanna. She teaches general psychology, learning and behavior, and animal cognition at Luther.

She has presented information on her research at several universities throughout the country and returned to Wesleyan to speak in 1994, and again as the 1998 Carhart lecturer.

In 1994, Gould received a scholarship to attend NATO Advanced Study Institute on behavioral brain research at Maratea, Italy. She conducted research at Repetek National Biosphere Reserve in Turkmenistan, and in 1995 she received the Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Gould is a member of the Animal Behavior Society and the Society for Neuroscience. She is also a reviewer for several journals.