GPN Faculty/Student Spotlight

The White House announces this year’s recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.  A huge congratulations to our innovative GPN Training Faculty!  Graduate Students Awarded Interdisciplinary Arts Grant! Shen Ning & Jenny Klein: The NeuroArts Forum The goal of the NeuroArts Forum is to traverse multiple disciplines to highlight the integration of […]

Congratulations to our new Professors: Jennie, Tarik, and Uri!!

A heartfelt congratulations from the GPN community on your promotion to Professor: Uri Eden, Tarik Haydar, and Jennifer Luebke! To learn more about their outstanding science visit Uri Eden The Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology Tarik F. Haydar, Ph.D.

Our Precious Nancy Kopell honored at SFN 2016!

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 […]

Stephen Grossberg Honored by IEEE

Professor Stephen Grossberg, BU’s Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a professor of mathematics, psychology, and biomedical engineering, has received the 2017 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Grossberg won the prize for his work in cognition and brain behavior, and for demonstrating how technology can […]

Congratulations to our new GPN PhDs!!

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).    

Mariel and Cassie win Travel Awards to ASPET 2016

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.

Dr. Stephen Grossberg honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

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 […]