2017 graduate Arianna Rigon has recently been awarded the Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize. This prize is awarded to doctoral students whose research focuses on disease prevention or translational disease research. The title of Arianna's dissertation “Structural and functional neural networks underlying facial affect recognition impairment following traumatic brain injury”. Her mentors were...

University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience student, Benjamin De Corte, has won the Kwak-Ferguson Fellowship, a $10,000 award from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute for an upper level graduate student working in the area of neurodegenerative diseases. His research in the lab of Nandakumar Narayanan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, focuses on the cognitive...

The University of Iowa Graduate College recognizes Joshua Weiner for his extraordinary contribution to graduate education through mentoring graduate students.Weiner, professor of biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the winner of the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in Biological and Life Sciences.Read the full story here.

A fellowship for future discoveries Alzheimer’s disease is one of the fastest growing threats to Americans’ health, but University of Iowa researchers like Guanghao “Max” Liu—a Neuroscience graduate student within the Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)—are determined to discover the mechanism that causes this debilitating neurodegenerative disease.In collaboration with Gloria Lee, MD, a...

CONGRATULATIONS to Nick Holland for passing his final exam to graduate with a Master’s of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, Neuroscience subtrack! Nick did his Master's work in the lab of Dr. Christopher Benson.

Exciting news! Marco Pipoly, who will be joining us as a grad student in the fall, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. See the link to read more about these prestigious awards and the UI students who will receiving them. Congratulations Marco! https://www.grad.uiowa.edu/news/2018-04-04/record-six-ui-grad-students-selected-as-nsf-fellows

Jessica Thomas successfully defended her thesis on April 6th, 2018!Title: "Elucidating the molecular and biophysical determinants that suppressCa2+-dependent facilitation of Cav2.2 channels”CONGRATULATIONS!Pictured: Jessica (left) and her mentor Amy Lee, PhD (right)

Rachel (Clark) Cole successfully defended her thesis on March 29th, 2018!Title:“Beneficial contribution of health behaviors to learning and related brain mechanisms in older adults”CONGRATULATIONS!Pictured: Rachel Cole (left) and her Mentor, Michelle Voss, PhD (right)

Catherine Yeates successfully defended her thesis recently!Title: “The reversibility and limits of homeostatic synaptic plasticity”CONGRATULATIONS!Pictured: Catherine (left) and her mentor C. Andrew Frank, PhD (right)

Katherine (Katy) Proch successfully defended her thesis on March 28th, 2018!Title: “Characterizing the effect of serotonergic input on medullary Phox2b neurons”CONGRATULATIONS!Pictured: Katherine Proch (left) and her Mentor: George Richerson, MD, PhD (right)