Category: News
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Rich Henderson defends PhD disseration
Congratulations to Rich Henderson (right) who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Spinal stimulation for upper and lower extremity motor recovery after spinal cord injury.” Rich worked in the lab of CNT co-director Chet Moritz (left).
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CNT Best Student Paper Award for Neurotechnology Advancement
This award recognizes and promotes a technical paper that has made identifiable contributions in the areas of neurotechnology or human-machine interaction. Sponsor: Fernando Family Fund (“Memory of our Moms”). Learn more about this award and its sponsors in “A gift honoring mothers and teachers assists university students who are advancing neurotechnology.” Purpose: This award recognizes…
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Amy Orsborn: AIMBE Emerging Leader
Congratulations to UW CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn who has been selected to be part of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering inaugural Emerging Leaders program. Emerging Leaders are selected in recognition of their distinguished achievements in medical and biological engineering.
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Ally Williams receives Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award
2023 CNT Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) student Ally Williams (currently at Mississippi State University) was recently awarded a 2024 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award. During her time in the CNT REU program, Ally worked in the lab of Andrea Stocco.
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October New Papers
New papers by CNT personnel: Hodgkiss, D.D., Williams, A.M.M., Shackleton, C.S., Samejima, S., Balthazaar, S.J.T., Lam, T., Krassioukov, A.V. and Nightingale, T.E. Ergogenic effects of spinal cord stimulation on exercise performance following spinal cord injury. Front. Neurosci., Sec. Autonomic Neuroscience, Volume 18 – 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1435716. Cho, H., Benjaber, M., Gkogkidis C.A., Buchheit, M., Ruiz-Rodriguez, J.F.,…
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Upcoming Seminars
Title: Splitting attention into its atomic components Host: Raj Rao Abstract: Every day, our senses face an information overload. How does our brain select what information is relevant for behavior and what is not? This is the central question driving our research: to understand the neural basis of the cognitive capacity that we intuitively understand…
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2nd Annual Neuroscience & Society Virtual Career Fair
UW CNT members Tim Brown and Asad Beck will be speakers at the 2nd Annual Neuroscience & Society Virtual Career Fair. Dates: September 9-12, 2024Time: 4-6 PM Pacific Tim Brown will also lead a discussion at the Pacific Science Center (Seattle, WA) event “Science & a Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” This is…
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Polina Anikeeva: New head of MIT DMSE
MIT CNT Deputy Director Polina Anikeeva has been named the new head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Dr. Anikeeva is also the director of the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center and associate director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics.
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Young Scholars Program-REACH: A must for every high schooler’s summer
Shreyas Bulusu (Henry M. Jackson High School, Mill Creek, WA) YSP-REACH provides insight about neuroscience to high school students in a variety of ways and has benefited me immensely. The foundational knowledge I received from the program not only helped me start summer productively but also allowed me to begin to appreciate neuroscience. The introduction…
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Courtnie Paschall: Husky 100!
Former CNT student Courtnie Paschall, who is also the founder of Invirtualis, Inc., has been named to the Husky 100!