The Postdoc Spotlight: Brooke Bender (opens in new tab)

Brooke Bender is a postdoctoral fellow in UNC’s SPIRE program, which prepares scientists for careers that integrate research and teaching. Through SPIRE, she has gained hands-on teaching experience, including serving as an instructor at North Carolina A&T State University, and is passionate about evidence-based teaching. She is particularly interested in helping students appreciate the creativity involved in scientific discovery. In the Besheer Lab, she studies how stress and drug exposure al...