Alice Cronin-Golomb Wins UROP Mentorship Award
We are pleased to announce that Professor Alice Cronin-Golomb has received an Outstanding Mentor Award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. We congratulate her on this honor!
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Steve Ramirez and Amy Janes Win Presidential Award
Congratulations to PBS Professor Steve Ramirez and to Brain, Behavior & Cognition Psychology PhD Alumna Amy Janes for being named Presidential Early Career Award Scientists & Engineers. The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional […]
Robert Reinhart’s Research Featured in The Scientist
Recent research led by Robert Reinhart and and John Nguyen has been featured in The Scientist. From the article: Noninvasive stimulation of key brain regions could help people reverse the common age-related decline in working memory—our ability to remember names, numbers, and other tidbits of information—according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience today (April 8). The […]
Neuroscience Student Michael Melhem Awarded the Prestigious Buck Scholarship
We would like to congratulate Michael Melhem, an outstanding junior majoring in Neuroscience, for being awarded the prestigious Augustus Howe Buck Scholarship. The Buck Scholarship fund has been in existence since 1917 and the scholarship is one of the highest honors bestowed on undergraduates at BU. Michael has been an enthusiastic and valued contributor in […]
Michael Hasselmo Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Professor Michael Hasselmo has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious scholarship organizations. We congratulate Professor Hasselmo on this high honor.
Joseph McGuire Featured in BU Today
Faculty member Joseph McGuire and his Cognition & Decision Lab have been featured in a profile in BU Today. From the article: McGuire uses fMRI and other techniques to test theories about cognitive processes. A 2015 paper he published in Nature Neuroscience with coauthor Joseph Kable of the University of Pennsylvania, used fMRI to examine how people […]
BU Research Feature Story on Robert Reinhart
BU Research has written “A ‘Turbo Charge’ for Your Brain?”, a profile on the work of PBS faculty member Robert Reinhart. From the article: Robert Reinhart calls the medial frontal cortex the “alarm bell of the brain.” “If you make an error, this brain area fires,” says Reinhart, an assistant professor of psychological and brain […]
Steve Ramirez Featured in BU Today
BU Today has published a profile on PBS Assistant Professor Steve Ramirez, detailing his background, research interests, and bevy of upcoming projects. From the article: His research into the nature and mechanisms of memory have made him a hot hand in neuroscience. His TED talk with research partner Xu Liu garnered over a million views. […]
Memorial Service for Professor Howard Eichenbaum
A memorial service will be held for PBS Professor Howard Eichenbaum: October 5, 2017, 1:00 – 2:30 PM Followed by reception. Boston University, Trustee Ballroom, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor. Free parking will be available for attendees at the Warren Towers garage (700 Commonwealth Avenue, garage entrance on Hindsale street). Please let the parking attendant […]
Remembrance of Howard Eichenbaum Published in Science
In remembrance of Howard Eichenbaum, PBS Professors Michael Hasselmo and Chantal Stern have authored a brief retrospective, published in Science, on his many contributions to psychological research, Boston University, and its faculty and students. Remembering Howard Eichenbaum’s career prompts the recall of many vivid memories, which is appropriate given Howard’s influential research on declarative memory function. His work […]