Neuroscience major Rejean Guerriero '01 knows that all work and no play makes for a dull boy. That's why he likes kicking game-winning field goals for the Bobcats after hard labor in the laboratory.

Whether he's involved in one of Coach Mark Harriman's intense football workouts, research in Professor John Kelsey's neuroscience lab or the work of guiding 13 first-year students as a junior adviser, Guerriero knows success in such diverse arenas requires focus on priorities.

"Football has helped me structure my time, so that I know what I have to do and when I have to do it. It keeps me on task a lot more than if I weren't playing," said Guerriero, whose kicking exploits earned him All-NESCAC and All-ECAC honors as he concluded the 1999 football campaign perfect on extra points (18-18), including a late-season 27 yarder in overtime to fell arch rival Colby in Waterville.

Funded by a $3,500 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Guerriero is spending summer 2000 in Kelsey's neuroscience lab, examining whether spontaneously hypertensive rats can serve as valid drug-therapy models for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in human beings. Guerriero plans to use the data gathered this summer for his senior honors thesis next year. "Writing the thesis is going to be long, hard work, but I'm looking forward to that sense of accomplishment," said Guerriero, who hopes to work for the Centers for Disease Control or the National Institutes of Health after graduation. -- By Nick Bournakel '01