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 […]
GPN students Meredith Cler, Maya Woodbury, and Dante Smith were recognized at the Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day on May 1, 2015.
Boston University Neuroscience graduate students volunteered at the 2015 Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair! BU graduate students include: Andres Salazar Gomez, Emily Stephen, Frannie Kamhi, Adam Vogel, Kayle Sawyer. Also pictured is Emily Kate McDonough from the University of Massachusetts.
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!!