{"id":7988,"date":"2026-08-28T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:55:10","slug":"lucille-papile-receives-2026-27-lepow-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2026\/08\/28\/lucille-papile-receives-2026-27-lepow-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucille Papile receives 2026-27 Lepow Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucille Papile of the Crocker and Spellman labs has been selected as the recipient of the<span>\u00a0<\/span>Lepow Award<span>\u00a0for the 2026-27 academic year. The Lepow Award was established in 1986 in honor of Dr. Irwin H. Lepow, a well-known faculty member, researcher, and founding father of the Health Center. \u00a0This award is given to the outstanding fourth-year PhD student in the Biomedical Science Program. As the recipient of the Lepow award, Lucy will receive a $750 prize and be invited to present a talk at the 2027 Graduate Student Research Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Papile\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7989 aligncenter lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Papile\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7989 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/08\/lepow-papile.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucille Papile of the Crocker and Spellman labs has been selected as the recipient of the\u00a0Lepow Award\u00a0for the 2026-27 academic year. The Lepow Award was established in 1986 in honor of Dr. Irwin H. Lepow, a well-known faculty member, researcher, and founding father of the Health Center. \u00a0This award is given to the outstanding fourth-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-08 20:11:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}