As posted in UConn Today – October 19, 2020 Neurons are cells in your brain. Shaped like little stars, they flicker and fire off signals to each other. The signals travel up and down the long tendrils, called dendrites, extending out from each point of a neuron’s star-shaped body. Chained into circuits like Christmas […]
Author: Jody Gridley
Dr. Kim & Dr. Kuwada publishes binaural hearing paper
As posted in UConn Today – September 25, 2020 UConn Health neuroscientists Duck O. Kim and Shigeyuki Kuwada passionately wanted to figure out the real story. Kuwada had made many contributions to science’s understanding of binaural (two-eared) hearing, beginning in the 1970s. Binaural hearing is essential to how we localize where a sound is coming […]
Graduate student Marwa Elamin wins Lepow award
Congratulations to Marwa Elamin, a 4th year graduate student working in Dr. Eric Levine’s laboratory, was announced as the winner of the 2020 Lepow award at the recent Graduate Student Research Day. This award, established in 1986 in honor of Dr. Irwin H. Lepow, a well-known faculty member, researcher and founding father of UConn Health, […]