Rita Fuchs

Rita received her B.S. degree in Psychology with Summa Cum Laude as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Behavioral Neuroscience/Psychology at Arizona State University. Subsequently, she received postdoctoral training and was appointed Research Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Rita held her first tenure-track Assistant and Associate Professor position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with joint appointments in the Department of Psychology and the Curriculum in Neurobiology. She joined the Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience Department as an Associate Professor in 2013 and was promoted to Professor in 2018. In addition to research, teaching, and mentoring, Rita serves as Director of the WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program, a multi-campus research institute funded by the State of Washington. When weather permits, she spends time with her husband, daughter, and two dogs - a chow-tervuren and a husky-malamute - off the grid, at a cabin in Montana.