Maria received her B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University in 2004 and completed a postbaccalaureate research education program at Virginia Tech (VT-PREP) in 2006. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, where she studied audiovisual integration of faces and vocalizations in the primate prefrontal cortex in the laboratory of Dr. Lizabeth M. Romanski. Maria completed her postdoctoral training in Dr. Gregory Quirk's lab at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, where she studied the neural circuits of active avoidance in rats. The Diehl Lab opened its doors in August 2019 in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University.

Email: mmdiehl at ksu dot edu / CV

Courses:

• Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience (formerly Brain and Behavior) (PSYCH 370)

• Neural Mechanisms of Learning and Memory (PSYCH 670) - coming soon!

• Principles of Learning (PSYCH 475)

• Principles of Neuroscience (formerly Psychobiology)  (PSYCH 470)

• Graduate Seminar in Physiological Psychology (PSYCH 951)

Twitter: @DrDiehl_Neuro

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Cassidy joined the lab in May 2025

Helen joined the lab in January 2025

Penni joined the lab in June 2024

Shannon joined the lab in July 2022