Welcome Summer Students!

A warm welcome to Sebastian Martinez Rivera and Legna Rivera, undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico who are conducting research in the laboratory through a Dana Foundation Summer Research Internship. Sebastian and Legna are working with Dr. Kaun to help identify how pervasive eugenic principles have impacted how psychiatric diseases like alcohol and substance use disorder are portrayed in the scientific literature and media. Their goal this summer is to help to identify false narratives in the media, find and interpret literature to debunk these claims, and create media-friendly communications about how genes impact psychiatric illness.