Rally Day Speaker: Dr. Theanne Griffith

Theanne Griffith ’08 

Neuroscientist and children’s author

Theanne Griffith ’08 is an assistant professor in the department of physiology and membrane biology at the University of California, Davis. The Griffith Lab investigates the sense of proprioception, the internal awareness of the body’s position in space, using a combination of molecular biology, physiology, and neuroscience techniques. The impact of her research has been nationally recognized with a Sloan Research Fellowship, a McKnight Scholar Award, and a recent appointment as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. In addition to her research, Griffith is the author of an award-winning STEM-themed series for children titled The Magnificent Makers, and the co-author of the nonfiction series Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files, which accompanies the Netflix series of the same name.