Daniel Miller specializes in the field of neuroscience. His research interests include the hippocampus, the medial prefrontal cortex, and the neurobiological substrates of learning and memory. His current research involves the function of the amygdala in stress vulnerable rats. He regularly takes students to the annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience and Pavlovian Society, where they present research collected in the Carthage Neuroscience Laboratory. He has also published articles in Physiology and Behavior, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Experimental Brain Research.

After completing his bachelor's degree, Dr. Miller held positions as a mental health worker and therapy leader for the Mental Health Association in Rockland County, N. Y. He also spent over three years as a residence manager for a group home serving chronically mentally ill young adults.

He joined the Carthage faculty in 1994.

Penny Seymoure was a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver from 1996-98. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship and was a research consultant at the University of Denver with Marshal M. Haith from 1998 until her appointment at Carthage in 2000.

Dr. Seymoure has an ongoing interest in the lifespan consequences of neonatal intervention on the development of gonadal and stress hormone systems in rodents. In this research, a special emphasis is placed on the function of adult housing paradigms in buffering early adversity and improving spatial cognitive abilities. Currently she and her students have been engaged in lifespan studies on the cognitive effects of neonatal exposure to the commonly used antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac). She has published articles in several neuroscience journals.

In the past four years, Dr. Seymoure has developed a second life of research examining the effects of deforestation of the southern cone forests in South America for local and tourist development and the impact of this development on the cultural, psychological, and medical practices of the Mbya Guarani people. She has written articles regarding human and land rights violations against the Mbya and the potential loss of their indigenous wisdom regarding forest management.

She has a Ph.D. in biological psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dan Choffnes, a developmental geneticist, joined the Carthage faculty in 2006. As an undergraduate, he studied biotechnology through coursework and laboratory research at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He continued his training as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where his Ph.D. research focused on bioinformatics, gene evolution, and developmental genetics. Dr. Choffnes’ Ph.D. dissertation focused on the genetics of stem cell regulation in plants. He maintains research projects in the field of developmental biology and encourages students to pursue independent experimental work.

Patrick Pfaffle previously taught graduate and undergraduate-level biology courses at Indiana State University. He has received numerous awards for scientific research, including the National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award, the Abbott Laboratories Research Award, and the ISU Proposal Incentive Award. His research has been presented at seminars across the country, and he has published his articles and abstracts in several international publications. Mr. Pfaffle earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Biochemistry. There, he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Friends of the Medical College of Wisconsin. He earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Mr. Pfaffle joined the Carthage faculty in 1997.