a multiple award-winning American cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist who has performed influential research in various branches of neuroscience using humans and chimpanzees. The campus has educated a fair number of noted persons involved in a variety of fields. Academics (arts) Prof. Trelani Chapman, assistant professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, specializing in the causes of typical and atypical disorders among children (HBA 2009) Dr. Michael Degagné, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario and Queen's Diamond Jubillee Medal recipient for his work with indigenous communities and reconciliation. Former President of Nipissing University, became the first indigenous president of a Canadian university. Prof. John Harrichand, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling at The University of Texas at San Antonio (Hons.B.Sc 2008) Prof. Marnie Jull, associate professor of conflict analysis and management at Royal Roads University (BA 1991) Prof. Adrian De Leon, free-lance poet, author of Rouge, assistant professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Researcher on indigeneity, settlers of color, and labor politics in Scarborough and the Filipino diaspora across the Pacific. (BA 2014) Prof. Adam Yao Liu, assistant professor of political science and researcher of authoritarian politics, Chinese politics, and political economy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (BA 2009) Prof. Rashelle Litchmore, assistant professor of human development and cultural psychology, specializing in race and education at Connecticut College (B.Sc 2008) Prof. Shirin Montazer, associate professor of sociology at Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, specializing in immigration, mental health and neighborhood contexts (BA 2002) Prof. Camille A Nelson, Professor of Law and Dean at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law, specializing in comparative law and critical race theory (BA 1991) Prof. John Pierce, Professor Emeritus of geography specializing in economic and resource geography, former Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, and former Dean of the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University (BA 1970) Prof. Sasha Reid, former sessional instructor of sociology at the University of Calgary, known for her database on serial killers and predicted that the string of disappearances from the Church Gay village was the work of a serial killer (B.Sc 2011) Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, inaugural Indigenous Chair in Truth and Reconciliation in Canada and Vice Provost for Indigenous Initiatives at Lakehead University, specializing in historic trauma and its impacts on Indigenous peoples (BA 1985)