Professors Burkhalter and Padoa-Schioppa are selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Andreas Burkhalter elected to AAAS (Links to an external site)
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Hayoung Song to join WashU as CTCN Fellow
Song, who is completing her PhD at the University of Chicago, will focus on developing a computational understanding of high-level cognition.
Mary Bartlett Bunge, 92, Dies; Pioneer in Spinal Injury Treatment (Links to an external site)
New York Times obituary of former Washington University professor Dr. Mary Bartlett Bunge
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience (Links to an external site)
Listen to Professor Padoa-Schioppa discuss his training and research on the BJKS Podcast.
Arthur Loewy and the central regulation of autonomic nervous function
Dr. Loewy worked over his decades-long career at Washington University to uncover connections between the peripheral and central nervous systems.
MSTP trainee Lizzie Tilden receives prestigious F30 award
Tilden, a graduate student in Yao Chen’s lab, received the fellowship to pursue her research on how sleep, learning and aging are tied together.
Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience welcomes inaugural fellow
Leandro Fosque, PhD, joins the CTCN at Washington University to study the mechanisms underlying homeostasis in the brain.
Naoki Hiratani joins the Department of Neuroscience as Assistant Professor
Hiratani, a theoretical neuroscientist, seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience and AI to gain a better understanding of both the brain and artificial intelligence.
Paul Bridgman, Professor of Neuroscience and innovative educator, retires
Dr. Bridgman made fundamental discoveries into the structure of growth cones and developed novel histology teaching approaches over his 4-decade career at Washington University.
Amy Christensen receives Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
The three-year award will support Dr. Christensen’s postdoctoral research in Adam Kepecs’ lab on the neural computations underlying uncertainty in decision-making.