Nathan Chai of the Devor Lab Awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarship
“We are proud to remain the Goldwater Foundation’s sole private sector partner for the second year and support undergraduates interested in pursuing medical research careers,” said Chandra S. Pemmasani, M.D., founder and CEO of UWorld. “It is inspiring to see how the foundation continues to motivate students to grow in their education and pursue their […]
Alanna Carey of the Chen Lab Granted NIH D-SPAN Award
Alanna’s current work utilizes a genetically diverse mouse model in an automated home-cage performing a goal-directed learning task to observe how genetic diversity influences learning capacity. Her dissertation aims to demonstrate that genetic variation related to learning can converge on specific neuronal cell types and investigate how molecular, anatomical, or functional properties of neuronal cell […]
New BU Postdoctoral Awards Celebrate Excellence in Mary Dunlop’s Mentorship and Research
Inaugural honors “reflect the critical contributions of our postdocs and their mentors”
Florencia Fernández Chiappe Named Pew Latin American Fellow
Chiappe, of Professor Meg Younger’s research group, has been named a Latin American Fellow from the Pew Charitable Trusts
Farbin Fayza Receives Graduate Student Summer Fellowship from the Institute for Global Sustainability
Farbin Fayza, PhD student at Ajay Joshi’s Integrated Circuits and Systems Group, recently received the Graduate Student Summer Fellowship from the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University. The cohort of graduate students will be researching bold and innovative solutions to the Climate Crisis, focusing specifically on “energy consumption patterns, population exposure to water scarcity […]
Cansu Demirkiran Selected as 2024 ML and Systems Rising Star
Cansu Demirkiran, PhD student at Ajay Joshi’s Intergrated Circuits and Systems Group, was recently selected to participate in the 2024 ML and Systems Rising Star Program. The program, hosted by MLCommons, is a workshop for PhD students and recent graduates designed to foster academic and industry collaboration, enable growth, and promote diversity. Read more […]