Gina Bufton Wins 2012 Johnson Opportunity Grant at Washington and Lee University

LEXINGTON, VA (05/21/2012)(readMedia)-- Gina Bufton of Preston, Md., a junior at Washington and Lee University, has been selected for the Johnson Opportunity Grants for 2012 spring/summer research activities. The Johnson Program on Leadership and Integrity awards 25-30 grants each year.

Bufton will spend the summer as a research assistant in the Cognitive and Affective Neuropsychology Lab at the University of Michigan. Although she has not been assigned to a particular project yet, most of the ongoing projects are studies of the effects of aging on memory and other aspects of cognition.

The research relies heavily on the use of neuroimaging, which will be a new skill for Bufton, a psychology major with a minor in philosophy.

She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and is a member of the varsity riding team at W&L. Her future plans include pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

The grants cover living, travel and other costs associated with the students' proposed activities, which are designed to help them with their future careers and fields of study. The grants vary in amount from $1,000 to $4,500 and are funded as part of the Johnson Program in Leadership and Integrity.