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.

• Elected Faculty Senate President - Faculty Senate (04/30/2024)
• 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.

• 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.

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