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As a 2025 National Science Foundation-funded scholar at UC Irvine’s Summer Institute in Neuroscience Program, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology student Juliana Morsello conducted research on diffusion kurtosis imaging as a way to identify biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease—a highly competitive opportunity that immersed her in hands-on neuroscience research not often experienced by undergraduates. Morsello’s…