Najah Walton, a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is already mentoring younger students interested in careers in science. Though Najah Walton is a first-generation college and graduate student, her family always encouraged her to explore the world and pursue higher education. Najah is working with a pre-clinical model based on chronic stress to understand what changes occur in brain areas that are involved in emotional processing potentially contributing to behaviors relevant to depression in humans.
