About the Bloggers
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Dalton Quick never planned to study psychology... or go into research... or start this blog. He was a strategic communication major at the world's premiere journalism institution, when he fell head-over-heels in love with the study of human behavior. Like an obsession, he began to dedicate countless hours toward research and the study of clinical science.
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Quick is a graduate from the University of Missouri - Columbia. Having completed a Bachelor of Journalism in Strategic Communication and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (with honors) he plans to return to school in the coming months to further his studies through a master's degree in psychological research. Ultimately, he hopes to be a clinical psychologist, emphasizing his research in military trauma and the improvement of front-line therapy for PTSD patients. He has a secondary interest in primary prevention efforts concerning the link between substance abuse and PTSD as well as community therapy to rebuild relationships between military and non-military support systems following trauma.
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Currently, Quick works as the IRB-Research Administrator at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Missouri overseeing quality assurance and improvement in research efforts, improving ethical research practice, and advising investigators and research staff on local policies as well as state and federal regulations concerning human subjects in biomedical and behavioral research.
Stevie Winingear was well into the premedical program at the University of Missouri - Columbia when she took Introduction to Anthropology as a ​behavioral science elective... the class changed her life. Not content just being a biology major, she began pursuing a secondary interest in anthropology.
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Winingear would graduate three years later with a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences and Anthropology (with honors). Hoping to move beyond passive learning, she secured a graduate student placement at Arizona State University. Today she is pursuing a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology alongside Dr. Anne Stone in the Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology. Her current research focuses on the recovery of genetic information from ancient or otherwise degraded sources. Winingear is currently working on a collaborative project examining the mitochondrial genomes of skeletal individuals who lived in South America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her part in the project is to reconstruct human movement and migration throughout the Americas, as well as to explore the admixture between indigenous and European populations.
