Brains & Behavior
B&B Fellowships Reach Two New Departments
Recently, the B&B Interdisciplinary Committee (IDC) has completed its task of reallocating fellowships among the member departments. Brains & Behavior is excited to announce two new fellowship lines in the departments of Music and Kinesiology & Health this Fall. Please help us welcome Caroline Simpkins from the Feng Yang lab (Kinesiology & Health) and Lauren Garber… more »
Psychology B&B Fellow Mary Fernandes Wins American Psychological Association Research Competition
GSU News Hub Jeremy Craig Reports:
CHICAGO – Mary Fernandes, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical neuropsychology at Georgia State University, won first place in the 2019 Psych Science-in-3 Competition Aug. 9 at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) annual conference.
Fernandes gave a three-minute presentation entitled, “The Associations Between Pupillary Response Patterns to Emotional… more »
B&B Scholar Aviva Mars Wins Summer Research Symposium’s Best Poster
B&B Scholar Aviva Mars from the Forger Lab won Best Poster at the 2019 Summer Research Symposium on Aug 7.
1st place: Aviva Mars (Forger Lab) B&B
2nd Place: Tobi Quadri (King Lab) SLOAN
3rd Place: Jody Finch (Latzman Lab) B&B
4th Place: Kamal Hughes (Glover Lab) IMSD
The symposium was presented by the… more »
2019-2020 Distinguished Lecture Series is Set
Dear Colleagues,
We are super excited to share the upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series for 2019-2020 academic year. Please mark your calendars.
Please note! This year, we will be meeting in Petit Science Center, room 101 at 12pm for this series.
Please share widely!
B&B 2019-2020 Seed Grant Results Are In!
Brains & Behavior is happy to announce the 2019-2020 Seed Grant winners. This year’s competition was extremely competitive and was run by Ad Hoc Chair, and former IDC chair, Andrea Scarantino from the Philosophy department.
The Ad Hoc committee met on April 15th and deliberated the entire day.
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2019 B&B Summer Scholars Have Been Selected
Brains & Behavior is excited to announce the 2019 Summer Undergraduate Scholars. The B&B Summer Scholars Program provides summer fellowships to selected GSU undergraduates to support their research efforts in faculty laboratories. The Scholars program is happy to announce its partnership with the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) for professional development and poster… more »
GSU Neuroscience Travels to Sweden
Graduate and undergraduate students working on their PhDs, Master’s Degrees, and Bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience, Music, Math, Psychology have been accepted into a study abroad program called “Thinking Nobel,” centered at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is the esteemed presenter of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology every year,… more »
RSVP Now for the May 24th B&B Retreat
Join us for this year’s May 24th Retreat in Centennial Hall from 12:00-6:30pm. KEYNOTE Alumna Karen Gamble, Ph.D. Associate Professor Tate Jordan Thomas Professorship Behavioral Neurobiology Division Department of Psychiatry University of Alabama at Birmingham FELLOW TALKS Barrett Brister *Math* Belykh Lab Anna Dunigan *Biology* Roseberry Lab Spencer Knafelc *Philosophy* Van Leeuwen Krishna Pusuluri *Neuro* Shilnikov Lab Greg Suess *Neuro* Frantz Lab Join… more »
Brains & Behavior Fellow Katie Partrick Awarded Prestigious Dissertation Grant and Suttles Graduate Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that our Graduate Brains & Behavior Fellow, Katherine (Katie) Partrick, has been awarded with not one, but TWO prestigious University fellowships this month! She, along with 10 other deserving doctoral students, have been awarded with a $2,000 Dissertation Grant. The purpose of the Dissertation Grant Program is to support the… more »
