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Resilience is the theme of All Alexandria Reads 2022 celebrated through book discussions and various events througho ut the month of April. The month of April also brings a renewed awareness to environmental issues with Earth Day. Through his new book\, If Food Could Talk\, Dumas hopes to encourage people to appreciate the clima te problem on a more personal level and make changes in their daily lives.

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Ted Dumas is an Associate Professor of Psychology who balances ed ucation and research to discover novel relationships between neural networ k activities and cognitive abilities and disseminate knowledge to students of all ages. Dr. Dumas received his B.S. degree at the University of Conn ecticut and double majored in Physiology and Neurobiology (Life Sciences D ept.) and Psychology. Having found his career niche in basic research\, he then attended the University of Virginia where he earned his first indivi dual NIH fellowship and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Neurosc ience and Behavior Program in the Department of Psychology. He then moved across the country to work as an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellow with Dr. R obert Sapolsky at Stanford University focusing on gene therapy techniques designed to prevent and promote recovery from brain injury. His second pos tdoctoral fellowship was at the University of Oregon with Dr. Clifford Ken tros where he contributed to a large effort to produce novel transgenic mo use lines for the study of learning and memory. Dr. Dumas also delivers 6- hour continuing education seminars for health professionals on a national circuit and is heavily involved in engaging undergraduate and secondary sc hool students in state-of-the art neuroscience. His laboratory has been fu nded by the Department of Defense\, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\, and the National Institutes of Health.

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