Nicole Weekes is the Harry S. and L. Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychology and a Professor of Neuroscience at Pomona College. Her research focuses on the psychological and biological stress response. She has received Pomona College’s Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching four times, as well as being named the Case-Carnegie Foundation’s California Professor of the Year.  She is also listed as one of the Top 300 Professors in the country by the Princeton Review.