Dr. Mario Muscedere is a Senior Lecturer in Biology and the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Muscedere received his PhD in Biology from Boston University in 2011 where, as a member of the Traniello lab, he investigated the physiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical underpinnings of social behavior in ants. Having developed a passion for undergraduate education during his graduate work, he joined the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, a position designed to provide training in teaching, curriculum development, and student mentorship. Working with former Program Director Paul Lipton and other colleagues, he helped restructure the major and create a new set of core major courses: NE 101, NE 102, and NE 203. After helping to teach the first few iterations of those courses he left BU in 2014 to become an Assistant Professor of Biology at Hendrix College, where he taught courses in physiology, animal behavior, and neuroscience. At Hendrix, Dr. Muscedere also served on the working group that created a new Neuroscience major at the college, which was approved and began accepting its first cohort of students in 2016. In 2017, Dr. Muscedere returned to the BU Biology Department and the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience as a Lecturer, teaching BI 315 Systems Physiology and several upper-level neuroscience electives. Dr. Muscedere became the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience in 2019. In addition to his teaching and administrative duties, Dr. Muscedere continues to collaborate on active research projects with the Traniello lab and researchers at other institutions, placing particular emphasis on mentoring undergraduate researchers. His students have presented their research at regional, national, and international meetings, received competitive intramural and extramural research grants, and 12 different students have been co-authors on peer-reviewed scientific publications.