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Community Spotlight: Mauricio Pinto

I worked on a project titled "Impact of Physiologic Factors on the Progression of Acute Traumatic Subdural Hemorrhage" in the lab of Dr. Wael F. Asaad.
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Community Spotlight: Kevin Li

I have always liked biology and life sciences because of how tangible they are from an everyday perspective.
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BIBS Graduate Research Awards 2017/2018

The Brown Institute for Brain Science has awarded six graduate research awards for the 2017/2018 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.
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Community Spotlight: Abby Atkinson

I am very curious about how brain becomes mind, and the role our physical bodies play in determining our mental states.
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Community Spotlight: Miles Martinez

I got interested in brain science after reading Oliver Sack's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." It got me to start wondering about the mechanisms behind perception and cognition.
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Community Spotlight: Abigail Skerker

I was really serious about math in high school and did not realize how much I liked biology and its integration with math until coming to Brown.
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Community Spotlight: Melanie Leitner

I came to Brown because I wanted to study neuroscience, and even back in the 1980's Brown had one of biggest and best neuroscience programs in the country, where undergraduates could perform research.
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Community Spotlight: Alison Barth

I am Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University. Research in my lab is focused on understanding how experience assembles and alters the properties of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, in both normal and disease states.
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Community Spotlight: Michael Shadlen

I am a Professor of Neuroscience at the Mortimer Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, the Kavli Institute and the Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, and I am an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Community Spotlight: Bill Martin

I lead Research and Development for an emerging biotech company that is focused on creating novel medicines for people with a variety of brain disorders, such as Autism, Schizophrenia and Depression.
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Community Spotlight: Nina Gray

I am the Executive Director for the Neuroscience Institute at NYU Langone Health, which means I oversee all the behind-the-scenes work (strategic, administrative, financial, programmatic, etc.) that supports the research and education goals of our institute and its faculty, trainees, and staff.
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Community Spotlight: Britt Anderson

I am Associate Professor of Psychology and Core Member of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
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Community Spotlight: Dorothy Yam

Starting from freshman year of high school I began thinking about the mind, brain, and about thinking. My interests stemmed from philosophical conversations with friends, which led me to think a lot about concepts like happiness and life satisfaction.
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March for Science - April 22, 2017

The March for Science has been endorsed by the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association of Geographers, the Society for Freshwater Science, the AAAS, the American Association of University Professors, and the American Anthropological Association.
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Community Spotlight: Elisabeth Evans

Elisabeth Evans, who has an undergraduate degree in architecture from MIT, is working in the laboratory of Diane Hoffman-Kim in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, & Biotechnology.
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Community Spotlight: Aaron Held

Aaron Held has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a Masters in Biotechnology from Boston University.