Rashmi Bansal, professor of neuroscience is the recipient of a prestigious investigator award for her study of neurodegenerative diseases and the hope it may bring to those suffering from multiple sclerosis and related diseases.
Author: Jody Gridley
A Brilliant Vision
By UConn Foundation Royce Mohan wants to help people see life more clearly. From a figurative standpoint, he could have been a philosopher. But he took his ambition more literally, becoming a vision scientist who specializes in treating injured eyes. Still, Mohan, the new John A. and Florence Mattern Solomon Chair in Vision Biology and Eyes […]
Congratulations Graduate Students
On behalf of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, we would like to congratulate the following students who recently defended their Ph.D. dissertations: Shaina M. Short defended her dissertation on Friday, May 24, 2013 in the Low Learning Center, titled “Synaptic Modulation of Dendritic Excitability in Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons”. Major advisor: Dr. Srdjan D. Antic. Dr. Shaina […]