The three-year award will support Dr. Christensen’s postdoctoral research in Adam Kepecs’ lab on the neural computations underlying uncertainty in decision-making.
Amy Christensen receives Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
Category: Awards & Honors
Xiyun Zhang wins 2023 Spector Prize (Links to an external site)
Zhang, who completed her undergraduate thesis in Dr. Harrison Gabel’s lab, is a co-recipient of this award honoring outstanding contributions to research.
Anatomy faculty receives Dean’s Impact Award (Links to an external site)
Kari Allen, Amy Bauernfeind, Krikor Dikranian, Ahmad Jezzini, Ashley Morhardt, and Kristen Prufrock are honored for their innovations in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paul Taghert awarded $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award
Taghert’s group aims to determine how circadian pacemaker cells in the brain control behavior and physiology that peak at different times.
Register for Symposium honoring Dr. Azad Bonni
Join the Department of Neuroscience in celebrating the contributions of our former Chair, Dr. Azad Bonni.
Jung Uk Kang receives O’Leary Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience Research
Kang, a graduate student in the lab of Larry Snyder, studies communication between two areas in the posterior parietal cortex during coordinated eye and arm movements.
Congratulations to O’Leary Prize finalists Jung Uk Kang and Alessandro Livi
Kang and Livi will present their research at the annual O’Leary Prize Competition March 14, 2023.
Department of Neuroscience marks International Women’s Day with Mildred Trotter Lecture
Rachel Wilson, PhD, of Harvard Medical School presents the 2023 Lecture on the neural circuitry of navigation and reflects on the status of women in science.
Adam Kepecs selected for Buzsáki Lecture Award by Hungarian Neuroscience Society
Professor Kepecs presented to the Joint Meeting of the Hungarian and Austrian Neuroscience Societies on his approaches to developing methods to accurately model human psychiatric disorders.