Cassie received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 2004, and a Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Kentucky in the Psychology Department with Dr. Michael Bardo. Dr. Gipson then continued her postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Peter Kalivas in the Neuroscience department at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2010-2015. Cassie then joined the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University in 2015 as an Assistant Professor. She joined the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences as an Associate Professor. Cassie accepts PhD students from the Integrated Biomedical Sciences and Nutritional Sciences programs, as well as MD/PhD students and post-doctoral scholars.