The NGG awarded 15 Ph.D.s in 2011.
NGG STUDENTS IN THE NEWS
2011 Flexner Award Winner
Congratulations to Bioengineering student Michael Gandal (Dr. Steve Siegel's lab) for being awarded this year's Flexner Award for Outstanding Thesis Work in the Neurosciences. Michael received a monetary award and his name will be engraved on a plaque that hangs in the Barchi Library. Students in any graduate group who did their Ph.D. on a neuroscience related topic in any lab across the University are eligible for the Flexner Award. Recipients are selected by the NGG Awards Committee.
2011 Dorothea Jameson and Leo M. Hurvich Travel Awards
Congratualations to NGG students Michelle Dumoulin, Laura Felgendreger, Amy Price, Mathieu Wimmer, and Melissa Wang for being awarded this years Jameson/Hurvich Travel Awards.. The Jameson / Hurvich family has generously donated funds used to help support travel of NGG students working in the area of behavioral neuroscience, or having a behavioral neuroscience component to their work, to attend scientific meetings.
2011 Fine Science Tools "USA," Inc. Travel Awards
Congratualations to NGG students: Jing Guo and Katie Kopil for being awarded this year's Fine Science Travel Award. The Fine Science Travel Award is a reward of $1,000 to help fund the travel of NGG students.
2011 Soros Scholars Fellowship Award Winner
Congratulations to Yin Li, MD/PhD NGG student in Dr. Josh Gold's lab who has been named as one of this year's Soros Scholars (http://www.pdsoros.org/). The Fellowship provides up to $90,000 towards graduate education over two years for 30 Scholars. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family.
2011 HHMI International Fellowship Award Winner
Congratulations to
Ankit Jain, MD/PhD NGG student in Dr. Rita Balice-Gordon's lab who has been named as one of this year's 48 Fellows.
This program supports outstanding international predoctoral students studying in the United States with a 3-year fellowship.
2011 CTL Teaching Certificates
Congratulations to Katie Kopil and Kristen Malkus who earned Teaching Certificates from the Center for Teaching and Learning.
2011 Winegrad Award Winner
Congratulations to Josh Hawk in Dr. Ted Abel's lab who was the recipient of the BGS Winegrad Award for an NGG student. Josh accepted his award at BGS Graduation on May 16th, 2011.
2010 Cognitive Science Society Robert J. Glusko Dissertation Prize Recipient
Congratulations to Jeff Chih-tat Law, in Dr. Josh Gold's lab, who received his Ph.D. in 2009, on receiving the 2010 Glusko Dissertation Prize from the Cognitive Science Society.
NIH NRSA Recipients
Congratulations to Coby Zyskind (Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto's lab) and Mike Hart (Aaron Gitler's lab) on receiving NRSAs from the NIH.
MINS / NGG Calendar
Click here for the MINS / NGG Calendar 2011-2012.
