Source: UConn Today, November 30, 2017 Dr. Riqiang Yan from the Cleveland Clinic has been named the new chair of the Department of Neuroscience. He will join us this spring and establish the medical school’s first research laboratory dedicated to studying and discovering potentially new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of neurodegenerative disease. Learn more […]
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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 […]
Solar Eclipse Viewing – Not Left in the Dark
Dr. Leslie Bernstein, professor in the Department of Neuroscience, took advantage of the second floor balcony of the main building to display a unique viewing area for all to safely observe the solar eclipse.According to the map on NASA, Hartford, Connecticut only saw a 66.9% solar eclipse totality. The white board captured a remarkable image […]