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Andrea McQuate awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Andrea McQuate, a PhD student working in the Barria laboratory, has been selected to receive a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). Her selection was based on “her outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as her potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise.” The program…
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International Symposium: Current Trends and Future Directions of Synaptic Plasticity Research
We are pleased to announce the international Symposium “Current Trends and Future Directions of Synaptic Plasticity Research” to be held at the University of Washington from July 18th through July 20th, 2013. Synaptic plasticity is the best cellular and molecular model of learning and memory and a highly dynamic field in modern neuroscience. This meeting…
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Student website explores careers for science graduate students
Graduate student Liza Shoenfeld stumbled across a startling statistic during her first year of graduate school: in 2006, only 15% of PhDs were in tenured or tenure-track positions 6 years after graduating. To find out where everyone else goes, she began interviewing PhDs who have pursued nonacademic careers. These interviews led to the creation of…
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Fred Rieke selected for Landolt Distinguished Mentor Award
Fred Rieke has been chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, which “recognizes a faculty member who excels at the intense, one-on-one mentoring that is the hallmark of graduate study”. One university-wide award is made every year. Fred is the first faculty member in the Health Sciences to…
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Publication by PBIO graduate student Wucheng Tao highlighted by The Journal of Neuroscience
Wucheng Tao, a PBIO graduate student working with Bill Spain and Chris Ransom, has published a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, demonstrating that GABAA receptors influence neuronal excitability in different ways, depending on their subunit composition. The paper was highlighted by the Journal as one of…
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Rehabilitation through rewiring: Interview with Eb Fetz and Steve Perlmutter
The future of rehabilitation therapy for victims of stroke or spinal-cord injury may lie in a small computer chip — called a neurochip — being developed, in cooperation, by the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) and the UW’s College of Engineering. This chip could repair and ultimately restore function of neurological communication within areas…
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