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Powers, Alice Schade was born on September 1, 1943 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Edward Knorr and Rachel Ann (Frisbee) Schade.
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Alice Schade Powers
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Alice Schade Powers, American Psychology educator. Achievements include research in brain evolution, visual system in turtles, brain mechanisms in learning and memory in turtles, startle and blink reflexes, habituation. Research grantee National Institute Mental Health, 1986-1987, National Science Foundation, 1992-1993, National Institute Health, 1993-1996.
Education
AB, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1969; student, University Zurich (Switzerland), 1965.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, 1969-1970; lecturer, research associate, laboratory coordinator department psychology, Bryn Mawr College, 1970-1985; associate professor psychology, St. John's U., Jamaica, New York, since 1985.
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Membership
Member American Psychological Society, Society Neurosci., Psychonomic Society, Society for Psychophysiol.
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Married Donald David Powers, 1968 (divorced 1978). Children: Laura Tracy, Edward David.
