I am an interdiscipinary Behaviroal Neuroscience that has received more then 4.5 million in federal funding and have been recognized for outstanding teaching and student mentoring. In addition to being a professor I served almost 3 years as a Program Office at the National Science Foundation.

• Larry P. Jones Professorship - University of Texas El Paso (09/01/2015)

• Ph D in Zoology, Michigan State University (1984)

• Neuroanatomical and Functional Consequences of Oxytocin Treatment at Birth in Prairie Voles Psychoneuroendocrinolgy 150 (2022), William E. Kenkel, Richard Ortiz, Jason R. Yee, Allison M. Perkeybile, Praveen P. Kulkarni, C S. Carter, Bruce Cushing, Craig F. Ferris.
• Functional connectivity differences between two culturally distinct prairie vole populations: insights into the prosocial network Biological Psychiarty, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 7 6 (2022), Richard Ortiz, Amy E. Wagler, Jason R. Yee, Praveen P. Kulkarni, Craig F. Ferris, Bruce Cushing.
• Medial amygdala ERα expression influences monogamous behavior of male prairie voles in the field Proceeding of the Royal Society: B (2021), Connor Lambert, Brian Keam, James Litcher, Samuel Castillo, Adam N. Perry, Bruce Cushing, Nancy Solomon.
• Cannabidiol has a unique effect on global brain activity: A pharmacological, functional MRI study in awake mice Journal of Translational Medicine (2021), Aymen Sadaka, Ana Ozuna, Richard Ortiz, Praveen P. Kulkarni, Clare Johnson, Heather Bradshaw, Bruce Cushing, Ai-Ling Li, Andrea Hohmann, Craig F. Ferris.
• Functional Connectivity differences between two culturally distinct prairie vole populations: insights into the prosocial network Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (2021), Richard Ortiz, Craig Ferris, Amy E. Wagler, Bruce Cushing.
• Maternal and paternal origin differentially affect prosocial behavior and neural mechanisms in prairie voles Behavioural Brain Research (2019), Lucas Stetzik, Rex Payne, Laura Roache, Jennifer Ickes, Bruce Cushing.
• Effects of methamphetamine on alloparental behavior in male and female prairie voles Physiology & Behavior 230 (2019), Bruce Cushing, Adam N. Perry, Richard J. Ortiz, K R. Hernandez.

• Development of the prairie vole an alternative small rodent model to study Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (2023), Volume El Paso, Stephanie Kehl, Allison Bauman, Samuel Castillo, Bruce Cushing, Brendan Podell, Gregory Robertson, Hugues Ouellet.
• Establishment of a prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission model (2023), Volume El Paso, Stephanie Kehl, Samuel Castillo, Carlos Valenzuela, Marc B. Cox, Bruce Cushing, Manuel Llano, Hugues Ouellet.
• Awake BOLD response to predator odor reveals populational differences in emotionality and temperament in prairie voles (2019), Volume Chicago, Richard J. Ortiz, Jason Yee, Praveen P. Kulkarni, Xuezhu Cai, J A. Mohl, Adam N. Perry, Craig F. Ferris, Bruce Cushing.
• Cloning and expression of the estrogen receptors α and β from the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) (2019), Volume Chicago, Guadalupe Pena Contreras , Keziah R. Hernandez, Adam N. Perry, Manuel Miranda-Arango, Bruce Cushing.
• Neural and behavioral correlates of social attachments in juvenile prairie voles (2019), Volume Chicago, Alawneh R. Alexa, Adam N. Perry, Bruce Cushing.
• Estrogen receptor alpha expression in the medial amygdala influences socially monogamous behavior of male prairie voles in a field setting (2019), Volume El Paso, Beatriz Ruiz, Marcelo Tinajero, Samuel Castillo, Adam Perry, Connor Lambert, Nancy Solomon, Bruce Cushing.
• Interactions between mating and methamphetamine self-administration in male prairie voles (2019), Volume El Paso, Dina Torres, Jose Landeros, Adam Perry, Bruce Cushing.
• Is blood thicker than water in social preference in comparison to juvenile and adult prairie voles (2019), Volume El Paso, Ennis A. Galez, Alexa R. Alawneh, Adam N. Perry, Bruce Cushing.
• The effects of estrogen receptor activation on oxytocin and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in female prairie voles (2019), Volume El Paso, Angela Chung, Dina Torres, Adam Perry, Bruce Cushing.
• Same building blocks different design: the complexity of "love", from the lab to the field (2019), Volume Chicago, Bruce Cushing.
• The effects of cohabitation and reproductive activation of microglia in male and female prairie voles (2019), Volume El Paso, Andrea Enriquez, Adam Perry, Bruce Cushing.
• The roles of estrogen receptor alpha and beta in sexual behavior and social preference sin female prairie voles (Microtus ochragaster) (2019), Volume El Paso, Dina Torres, Jose Landeros, Adam Perry, Bruce Cushing.

• C06: Build-out of an Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience Facility for Hispanic Health Disparities at UTEP