Kiera presenting a poster on her PhD project at the Research Society on Alcohol Scientific, Meeting in New Orleans in June 2025. Image provided by Kiera Fleck. When you ask fourth-year neuroscience Ph.D. student Kiera Fleck what drew her to study the brain, she doesn’t start with lab work or equations. She starts at home. “I actually got into neuroscience because I have a brother with special needs,” she says. “My whole life I volunteered with different organizations working
