During the month of February the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Carver College of Medicine will be highlighting students for Black History Month. Check out the link to see the great highlight done on our very own, Micah Johnson in Rainbo Hultman's Lab.

Rachel Schroeder (Stevens & Pieper labs, Psychiatry) recently published a first-author publication: “Maternal P7C3-A20 Treatment Protects Offspring from Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Prenatal Stress”, see more here: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ars.2020.8227, which was also featured in the Daily Iowan: https://dailyiowan.com/2021/02/04/iowa-and-ohio-researchers-discover-compound-with-the...

Congrats to Neuroscience Graduate Student, Maggie Tish! Maggie won the 2020 Kwak-Ferguson fellowship award for her research regarding neurodegenerative diseases. Read more about her work in the article attached! Read more here!

Black in Neuroscience week is here! The UI Neuroscience Graduate Program is honored to celebrate Black excellence in neuro-related fields. The first #BlackInNeuroWeek is July 27-Aug 2. Current student, Micah Johnson, is featured in one of the profiles Visit https://www.blackinneuro.com/ for details on live online events, daily hashtags and conversations, resources, and profiles.

Congratulations to James Kent (Voss Lab) on a successful thesis defense. James defended his thesis "Statistical Comparison of Methods Measuring Context Dependent Functional Connectivity" on Wednesday, July 15th. Congrats James!

Banu, a recent graduate from the Neuroscience PhD program was awarded the Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize for 2020. Banu is a part of the Stevens Lab. Each year the Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize recognizes the most meritorious dissertation by a doctoral student conducting research in prevention of disease and/or the translation of research into clinical practice. Students from a variety of...

Neuroscience Faculty member Dr. Stanley Perlman and one of only ten virologists in the world to study Coronavirus leads the University of Iowa research efforts for COVID-19. Check out the great article on Dr. Perlman's research here!

Congratulations to Neuroscience Faculty member Joshua Weiner, who has been appointed to the position of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Research, effective July 1, 2020.

Katrina Okerstrom- Jezewski (Anderson & Tranel Labs) successfully defended her thesis, titled "The impact of specific cognitive impairments on the capacity to consent to research". Congratulations Katrina!

Congratulations to Banu (Stevens lab) and Benton (Buchanan lab) for being selected as award recipients for the NIH Outstanding Scholars Neuroscience Award Program.