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Community Spotlight: Nancy Nkoudou (2018 UTRA)
My academic interests in high school surrounded physics and engineering- in fact, my favorite class was PHYSENG, a course that gave students the chance to apply what we learned about classical mechanics and electromagnetism to engineering projects.
Community Spotlight: Gabriela Batista (2018 UTRA)
In high school I was interested in Biology and Psychology, although I always really loved English classes as well.
Link strengthens between mitochondria and synapses in autism
Mitochondrial abnormalities have been implicated in other psychiatric conditions, according to another study published in February that shares two authors with Schwede’s paper.
Two Brown neuroscience graduate students win NIH F99/K00 award
Applicants were judged on a number of criteria, including their commitment to a career in neuroscience, the strength of their training plan and the quality of their current research projects as graduate students.
Graduate Awards in Brain Science 2018/2019
The Carney Institute for Brain Science has awarded five Graduate Awards in Brain Science for the 2018/2019 Academic Year. These awards recognize early career scientists who have made outstanding achievements as graduate students and have demonstrated strong potential for successful lifelong scientific careers.
Dima Amso on "Story in the Public Square"
The show aired June 16-18, the audio version can be heard here, and The Providence Journal published a summary of the conversation.
40 neuroscientists walk into a bar
Linden suggests that the book is ideally suited "to accompany a seminar-style course for first year graduate students, undergraduates or even bright high-schoolers."
Community Spotlight: David Brandman
I'm a post-doctoral research fellow with the department of engineering, under the supervision of Drs. Hochberg and Simeral.
Community Spotlight: Alycia Mosley Austin
I am Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program and Assistant Dean of Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School.
Karla Kaun receives Young Investigator Award from IBANGS
The ultimate goal of the society is to elucidate the molecular pathways through which genes together with the environment affect behavior. Dr. Kaun will receive the award and present her latest research at the IBANGS meeting in Rochester, May 17-20, 2018.
Fair educates community on brain science
University fair hosts 35 exhibits as part of week-long effort to present brain science in R.I.
Community Spotlight: Garrett Neske
I am a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, where I study circuit mechanisms of state-dependent sensory processing in the visual system.
Community Spotlight: Theresa Desrochers
Theresa Desrochers, PhD is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. Dr. Desrochers joined Brown and BIBS in September 2016.
Community Spotlight: Alexander Jaworski
Alex Jaworski, PhD is June G. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Brain Science and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. He joined Brown and BIBS in July 2013.
The Rhode Island Neuroscience Consortium announces results of the New Frontiers Awards
These awards support brain science projects involving scientists from any of the institutions represented on the RINLC: Brown University, University of Rhode Island, Lifespan Hospitals, Care New England Hospitals, and the Providence VA Medical Center.
Brown University, CMU, UPenn, Yale, and Choate Rosemary Hall to Participate in Rothberg Catalyzer Initiative
Project teams will be encouraged to work as entrepreneurs to advance technologies for medical devices, create innovations, and translate their ideas into solutions within neuroengineering. Prizes will be awarded to the top teams at the end of the semester program-wide competition.
Community Spotlight: Kelvin De Leon, BP-ENDURE student
I participated in the BP-ENDURE Program at Brown in the summer of 2015 and summer 2016.
Community Spotlight: Hala Haddad, BP-ENDURE student
I participated in the BP-ENDURE program at Brown in the summer of 2015.
The Corporation approved the appointment of the following faculty to named chairs at this and other recent meetings.
Community Spotlight: Alexander Fleischmann
Alexander Fleischmann, PhD is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. He was previously a Principal Investigator at Collège de France, in Paris. Dr. Fleischmann joined Brown and BIBS in January 2018.
Community Spotlight: Mu Yu Situ, BP-ENDURE student
I participated in the BP-ENDURE program at Brown during the summer of 2017.
Community Spotlight: Elyce Williams, BP-ENDURE student
What year did you participate in the BP-ENDURE Program at Brown?
I was there the summer of 2015.
I was there the summer of 2015.
Community Spotlight: David Borton
I am an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University, the Brown Institute for Brain Science, and the Providence VA Medical Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology.
Community Spotlight: Joanna Korman
I work as an NRC postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. My home research group here, called the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, focuses on cognitive science and cognitive robotics.