Dr. Rosemary Strasser is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She is a founding and current board member of the Canine Science Society. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience from Bowling Green State University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Zoology and an NRSA fellow from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at Washington State University. Dr. Strasser has received teaching awards for excellence in service-learning and community-based classes. Students in her service-learning classes work with local shelters and zoological parks to identify and develop solutions to community-identified needs. Dr. Strasser’s laboratory has focused on the human-animal bond across species and environments. She has examined the influence of stress on social cognition in shelter dogs and on the health and adaptability of shelter cats. She has also examined hormonal synchronization between owners and their dogs following the acute stressor of a competition. Dr. Strasser’s current work explores the importance of early life history, including stress and trauma, on companion animals' physiology and psychological well-being. She has found that, well into adulthood, dysregulation in the stress response and alterations in DNA methylation patterns can be observed in dogs from adverse environments. Dr. Strasser's service to the profession includes serving as a guest editor for special issues on the Human-Animal bond, reviewing for several journals and grants, serving as a board member of a dog rescue organization, and appearing in several local and national media interviews.