Second-year graduate student, Mallory Kroeck, successfully defended her Graduate Thesis Proposal on October 16, 2018 before her thesis committee, department faculty, and fellow graduate students. The title of Ms. Kroeck’s thesis project is, “Pursuing the Neurology of Compassion: An eLORETA Analysis of the Compassion Circuit.” Data collection is underway and she is currently developing the MatLab/EEGLab/eLORETA data processing code to conduct a complex FFT Power Spectral and Current Source Density analysis of the neurological characteristics of blameworthy and careworthy compassion.