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Willa Mihalyi-Koch ’19 and Hannah Zucker '15 have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. This is a highly competitive, prestigious, nationally recognized fellowship that is awarded to just under 2000 students in the natural and social sciences and engineering.
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Nobel Prize-winner Paul Greengard '48, a neuroscientist whose study of brain cell messaging opened new pathways to studying psychological diseases, died at the age of 93 on April 13.
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She gets a lot of questions about her majors — neuroscience and dance — because they seem divergent, but in a classroom discussion with other dance students Katie McMorrow ’20 discovered kindred academic spirits.
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Sara Aldrich’19 is spending the summer doing research in Dr. Alcino Silva’s lab, which is in the UCLA graduate neurobiology department.
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As she nears graduation, neuroscience major Allison Mogul ’18 already has some significant accomplishments on her resume, namely published research in a Journal of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and presentation of her findings at the Society for Neuroscience conference.
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Back in the science classrooms that they had frequented not that long ago, four alumnae returned to campus for a “What I Did with My Major in Neuroscience and Psychology” panel. Hosted by the Career Center in collaboration with the Psychology Department on April 9, the event attracted 40 interested students and was followed by a networking reception.
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Knowing she wanted to be a genetic counselor, Emily Palen ’14 majored in neuroscience and spent a semester at the New England Center for Children. Her first step after College — a master’s in genetic counseling at the Boston University School of Medicine.
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Sara Aldrich ’19, Tatenda Chakoma ’18, Gianna Davino ’20 and Allison Mogul ’18 are studying the behavior of rats to better understand the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry behind learning, memory and motivation.
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For Emily Teichman ’18, the study of mood disorders, especially of depression, is a topic of great personal relevance. “I would be hard-pressed to find a person whose life, in some way, whether directly or through a friend or family member, has not been touched by this disease,” she said.
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Emily Yong ’19, a neuroscience major, is a runner and activist who found her perfect internship in the highlands of Kenya, one of the running capitals of the world.
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