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University of Washington A CNT Monthly Newsletter                                  December, 2025 Honors and Awards Congratulations to Chary Batista (labs of Steve Perlmutter and Sarah Mondello) and Ali Sadeghi (lab of Christoph Hofstetter) who both received 2025-2027 Weill Neurohub Fellowships. Upcoming Events UW Future Tense,…

University of Washington A CNT Monthly Newsletter                                  November, 2025 Upcoming Events Neuroscience, AI and Society: Cory Doctorow, December 4, 2025; UW Computational Neuroscience Center, Seattle, WA Neuroethics 2026, April 15-17, 2026; Stanford, CA; Lucca, Italy, Stellenbosch, South Africa CNT…

University of Washington A CNT Monthly Newsletter                                        October, 2025 Honors and Awards Congratulations to Ali Alattar, a University of Washington bioengineering undergraduate student in the lab of CNT faculty member Azadeh Yazdan, who received a 2025-2026 Washington…

University of Washington A CNT Monthly Newsletter                                  September, 2025 Honors and Awards Congratulations to Elisa Castagnola, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University, who received a five-year NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award. Elisa…

A CNT Monthly Newsletter August 2025   HONORS AND AWARDS Recent accomplishments by members of the lab of UW CNT faculty member Azadeh Yazdan:  Karam Khateeb and Jasmine Zhou successfully defended their PhD dissertations, Rachel Mariko Iritani defended her Master’s thesis and received an NSF GRFP,  Nari Hong received the UW Department of Bioengineering Excellence…

A CNT Monthly Newsletter June 2025   HONORS AND AWARDS Congratulations to UW CNT faculty member Adrienne Fairhall who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations to UW CNT faculty member Jeffrey Herron who will be promoted to Associate Professor without tenure; effective July 1, 2025. Alyssa Williams, a 2023 CNT REU student…

A CNT Monthly Newsletter May 2025   HONORS AND AWARDS Congratulations to UW CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn who has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering (effective September 16, 2025). UPCOMING EVENTS Abstract submission for the 2025 Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting (November…

A CNT Monthly Newsletter April 2025   HONORS AND AWARDS David Bell (lab of UW CNT faculty member Adrienne Fairhall) presented “Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuit” at the COSYNE meeting in Montreal, Canada. Scott Sterrett (lab of UW CNT faculty member Adrienne Fairhall) presented “Recurrent neural networks balance sensory- and memory-guided policies for…

A CNT Monthly Newsletter February 2025   HONORS AND AWARDS Congratulations to Fordham University associate professor Laura Specker Sullivan (a 2015-2017 CNT postdoctoral fellow) who received a three-year National Science Foundation grant titled “From Principles to Practice: Ethical Guidance for Neurotechnology Researchers.” UPCOMING EVENTS Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, March 29 – April 1, 2025 (Boston,…