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Doctorate
Cornell University
Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Kara A. Beckman was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Kathleen Callahan Beckman, J.D., and Stephen Beckman. Kara attended the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, where she first joined the Cornell Choline Cognition Research Group as an undergraduate research assistant, studying the effect of maternal choline supplementation on biological markers of stress and tests of executive function in childhood, under the guidance of Dr. Julie Nevins, Dr. Barbara Strupp, and Dr. Rick Canfield. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Nutritional Sciences in 2017. She then returned to Cornell University in the Fall of 2017 to obtain her Ph.D. in Human Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Under the advisement of Drs. Barbara Strupp and Rick Canfield, she conducted research to investigate the effects of maternal choline supplementation on child cognitive and affective outcomes. When not in the laboratory or the classroom, Kara enjoys cooking, virtual game nights with friends, and taking walks around Ithaca with her dog, Knightley.
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