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Reed Carroll is a Professor of Biology at Â鶹ÒùÔº where he has been on the faculty since 2013. Dr. Carroll has been a member of the Honors Program Committee since 2021, becoming director at the end of 2024.

At NJCU, Carroll has been actively involved in developing programs that enhance student success. He has directed several grant-funded activities designed to boost career readiness through career skills and awareness workshops, a career-preparation course, and a long running student mentoring program.

Dr. Carroll is also committed to supporting the practice and expansion of research at NJCU, focused on promoting student involvement in independent laboratory research. He has helped organize summer research internships and coordinated research presentations at the NJCU STEM Research Symposium for 10 years.

Dr. Carroll received his B.A. in Cell Biology from Cornell University and earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University. He completed postdoctoral training in neuroscience at UC-San Francisco and Stanford University. Prior to coming to NJCU, Dr. Carroll served on the faculty for nearly 13 years in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College for Medicine. Research in Dr. Carroll’s Carroll lab centers on the mechanisms regulating inhibitory synapses in the brain with the aim of providing insight into disorders associated with altered excitation in the brain including autism and epilepsy.

(ROI-NJ; December 12, 2024)