PETERS PICKED TO LEAD WSU'S NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM

PULLMAN, Wash., July 14 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:

Twenty-five years after arriving at Washington State University as a graduate student, neuroscientist James Peters is the new chair of WSU's Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience Department in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Peters, who will succeed Shane Hentges, earned his PhD in neuroscience in 2005 and joined the faculty in 2010 following a postdoctoral fellowship. Throughout his career, he has studied how the brain communicates with the body's internal organs and mentored generations of WSU undergraduate and graduate students.

"It's unusual to have a major research institution in a rural area where you're giving students from rural commun...