Nancy Kopell Receives Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience WASHINGTON, DC — The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Nancy Kopell, PhD, of Boston University. The $25,000 prize, supported by The Swartz Foundation, recognizes an individual who has produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models […]
Come to the hooding ceremony to congratulate your fellow students! Thursday May 12th 2:00 PM Agganis Arena. Stay tuned for information about our first GPN Graduation Reception. Congratulations to our new PhDs!! Caitlin (Monaghan), Chelsea (Trengrove), Emily (Stephen), Franne (Kamhi), Jason (Climer), Lissa (Riley), Marie-Pierre (Payen), Nick (James), and Nick (Robinson).
Congratulations to Mariel Seiglie and Cassie Moore (GPN students in the Addiction Specialization) win the ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics) student travel awards to the annual meeting this April in San Diego.
A special congratulations from our community to Dr. Marc Howard for his promotion to Full Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences!
Congratulations to you all and remember we are always your family when you need us. You made it! Emily Stephen Kendra Kobrin Lissa Riley Maripierre Surpris Megan Varnum Tara Vanderweyde
A huge congratulations to our colleague Stephen Grossberg for the coveted award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists. The Society of Experimental Psychologists gave its 2015 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Stephen Grossberg, Wang professor of cognitive and neural systems and professor of mathematics and psychology, for his pioneering theoretical research on how brains […]
Another great acknowledgment of outstanding accomplishment for our dear colleague Nancy Kopell comes from Israel Brain Technologies. Nancy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, a distinction given to only one or two mathematicians each year. She is a recipient of a MacArthur […]
Tau’s Role in Neurodegeneration Microglia and exosome-mediated spread of pathogenic tau in Alzheimer’s disease Our study suggests that microglial uptake and spreading of tau protein may play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects more than 5.3 million people in the United States. The average life expectancy is […]
Congratulations to Maya in her selection to receive the SFN 2014 Graduate Student Travel Award. She is one of about 30 awardees in the nation!!
Congratulations to Samantha Michalka of the Somers Lab for winning first prize and Maripierre Payen Surpris of the Chen lab for second prize representing Graduate Program for Neuroscience at the MED campus!