Dr. Kerri Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine. She earned her BS in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology from Duke University, her MS in Marine Mammal Science from the University of St Andrews, and her PhD in Human-Animal Interaction from the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University. After her PhD, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Human-Animal Bond in Colorado at Colorado State University. As the director of the HAB (Human-Animal Bond) lab, her research explores the role and impacts of the human-animal bond for human and animal health and wellbeing across a variety of settings, populations, and contexts.