Dr. Morrison ran a research lab at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego for 3 years prior to arriving at Lycoming-she has studied the development of the cerebellum, a brain region responsible for balance and coordination of motion, and has supervised several students doing independent studies involving projects relating to brain development.

She teaches Cells, Genes, and Society, an introductory course for non-biology majors, Immunology, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology. In the fall of 2006, Dr. Morrison will introduce a new Biology Research Methods course in which students will develop their own research projects. She has also helped establish a state-of-the-art microscopic imaging facility at Lycoming.

Dr. Morrison has mentored undergraduate students who have gone on to graduate and medical studies at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, and Boston University, to name a few. She advises students through the Health Professions Advisory Committee, and serves on the Independent Studies committee and the Writing Across the Curriculum Committees at Lycoming.

Dr. Morrison serves on the board of the Lycoming County Audubon Society, and has experience handling and training raptors (birds of prey: hawks, falcons, eagles, and owls). She also participates in an annual census of the endangered desert bighorn sheep populations in the Anza-Borrego desert east of San Diego: this involves backpacking in 115 degree heat up boulder-strewn hillsides to catch a glimpse of the sheep as they bring their lambs to isolated waterholes. To complement her lifelong passion for biology, she is an avid amateur naturalist, animal tracker, backpacker, skier, ice skater, and volleyball player.