Barbara Beltz is the Allene Lummis Russell Professor in Neuroscience at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, where she served as Director of the Neuroscience Program from 1996-2016.
She also is Lead Consultant to the Sherman Fairchild Foundation for their undergraduate scientific grants programs, and a Member of the Corporation at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Beltz joined the faculty at Wellesley in 1987, after receiving her PhD from Princeton University (1979) and postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed research articles, as well as two books. Her research interests focus on the relationship between the immune system and the nervous system, and specifically how the immune system is involved in the production of new neurons in the adult brain.
