i think it is a scam anyway.
I don't know, the website checks out. Loma linda university is a real university based in California. Looking on their website (which i navigated to from google) Richard E hartman really is a professor of psychology there.
His faculty profile links to the page given by OP. The Bitcoin address matches the one given by OP.
I don't think OP is a scammer, I think the "retro" design of his neuroscience lab website just comes from being in academia

Not that i really have any interest either way in whether OP gets donations or not, i was just curious to see what kind of neuroscience lab accepted BTC