Announcement
2025 Presidential Fellows in Collaborative Neuroscience Announced!
Six 3rd- and 4th-year graduate students from the School of Medicine, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and School of Architecture have been awarded fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Julianna Mollica | Constructed Environment
- Mentors: Andrew Mondschein, Urban and Environmental Planning; Nicole Long, Psychology; Michael Sheehy, Contemplative Sciences Center
- Project Title: Neurophysiological, Physiological, and Psychological Mechanisms of Stress Regulation: The Role of Environment During Meditation
Kaela Lettieri | Cell & Developmental Biology
- Mentors: Noelle Dwyer, Cell Biology; Stefanie Redemann, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
- Project Title: Specialized machinery for cell division in the developing brain
Lizzie Zhang | Neuroscience
- Mentors: Edward Nieh, Pharmacology; Wendy Lynch, Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
- Project Title: Dissecting reward processing in hippocampal dCA1 - A pathway to addiction-selective therapies
Piotr Kraszewski | Neuroscience
- Mentors: Elise Cope, Neuroscience; Sarah Flowers, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Exploring the Role of Hippocampal Perineuronal Net Sulfation in Social Memory Deficits Associated with Alzheimer's Disease
Reza Ghorbani | Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Mentors: Merry Mani, Radiology & Medical Imaging; Mathews Jacob, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Project Title: Three-Dimensional Diffusion-Weighted Multi-Slab MRI With Slice Profile Compensation Using Deep Energy Model and k-q Accelerated Multidimensional Diffusion Encoding
Zhenyu Lei | Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Mentors: Jundong Li, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Aiying Zhang, School of Data Science
- Project Title: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Decoding and Modulating Neural Circuit Activity Linked to Behavior