Nick Dennis is a PhD student with Dr. Mauricio Delgado’s Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Rutgers University-Newark in the Department of Psychology. He is broadly interested in how memory guides adaptive decision making. More specifically, his work aims to understand how retrieved social and emotional context from past experience influences decisions under risk and stress. Nick grew up in Pennsylvania and obtained his BA in Neuroscience from Colgate University in 2019. Prior to starting graduate school, Nick completed a post-baccalaureate fellowship at Yale University to research the adolescent brain and social cognitive development, then worked at Rutgers RWJMS to parse the boundaries between normative and aberrant cognitive control. Nick is passionate about disseminating the “hidden curriculum” of graduate school applications and mentoring future scientists with the Project SHORT Team!