Faculty Spotlight selects a specific faculty member from a number of nominations received by the department chairs. Dr. Douglas Oliver, Ph.D., professor and vice chair of neuroscience was nominated to highlight his substantial grant award from the Department of Defense for work aimed at developing an electrophysiological test for tinnitus. Dr. Oliver explains what his lab […]
Awards
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 […]