Sarah Winokur has been awarded the 2019 Keith Rayner Memorial Graduate Student Research Award. Sarah is a rising fifth year student in the UMass Amherst Behavioral Neuroscience program. Her proposal is titled, “Evaluating estradiol fluctuations across pregnancy in a rat model of postpartum depression.” Sarah won the CRF Travel Award in 2019 which helped to fund her presentation at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego.

The Keith Rayner Memorial Graduate Student Research Fund was endowed in 2015 in honor of Dr. Keith Rayner, who died of multiple myeloma in January of 2015.  Keith was a Distinguished University Professor and a member of the PBS faculty for 30 years (1978-2008). The award supports research expenses including equipment purchases, data collection, professional travel, or summer stipends.