Author: Jody Gridley

Alexion Dissertation Improvement Award – James Fink

Congratulations to James Fink, graduate student in the Levine Lab, who was one of two recipients to receive the Graduate Student Dissertation Improvement Award (GSDIA).  This $5,000 award was available through a joint partnership with Alexion Pharmaceuticals & GSDIA to support graduate students at UConn & UConn Health whose research in basic biological processes or health […]

Trakhtenberg Lab – Interstellar Initiative honor

Source: UConn Today, September 14, 2017 – Chris DeFrancesco Ephraim Trakhtenberg, assistant professor of neuroscience, won an Interstellar Initiative honor from the New York Academy of Sciences and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. Most recently he was awarded “First Place – Outstanding Early Career Investigator Team Presentation in Neurocience.” In March he […]

Megan Miller, Update on Previous Ph.D. Graduate of Neuroscience

Source: UConn Today, September 12, 2017 – Lauren Woods Two former graduate students of UConn have been awarded prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF). Megan Miller, is one of these former students. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at UConn Graduate School in 2015. Miller […]