PhD student Erin Morrow was selected to attend the AAAS CASE Workshop to learn hands-on science advocacy strategies and best practices. She also participated in a Hill Day, urging multiple congressional offices to support increased federal funding for basic research.
We are excited to welcome an excellent new team of undergraduate research assistants to support projects related to the cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory!
These department awards recognize contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as contributions to mentoring PhD students both within and across labs.
The SANS Innovation Award recognizes a particular article authored by a SANS member and published in a scholarly outlet that makes a contribution likely to generate the discovery of new hypotheses, new phenomena, or new ways of thinking about the discipline of social and affective neuroscience.
This UCLA funding will support their summer projects examining how arousal dysregulation relates to memory deficits in PTSD and how amygdala-hippocampal pathways consolidate emotional memories at boundaries, respectively.