Before her first faculty position, Monica completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship on alcoholism etiology and treatment funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the Research Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, NY. Her research lab at MSU, the Research, Education, And Culture in Health (REACH) Lab, is collecting data on addictive behaviors and mental health among college students with plans to expand this work into rural community settings in Montana.