Pacific Standard magazine features Neuroscience Graduate Program incoming student Alexis Tolliver as one of their “30-under-30” list of the “year’s most exciting young thinkers and advocates in policy and social justice.” Read the interview at https://psmag.com/magazine/alexis-toliver-30-under-30”

NSGP graduate Justine Allen’s report on cuttlefish fighting appeared in American Naturalist recently (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/692009) and was highlighted in the New York Times this week.
See the dramatic footage at https://nyti.ms/2pOZZmZ

Faculty and graduate students from the Neuroscience Graduate Program, as well as their friends and families, were enthusiastic participants in the March for Science. The rain didn’t stop us from marching in the Providence, RI or Boston, MA. (Pictured: NSGP graduate students Nate Snell, Valerie Estela, Megan Leyer, Torrey Truskowksi and husband Chris, and Alastair Tulloch.

The post-doctoral work of Tyler Ard, a recent graduate of the Brown-NIH Graduate partnership program, has been highlighted in the blog of Dr. Francis Collins. See the blog entry on Department of Health & Human Services website at https://www.hhs.gov/blog/2017/02/13/cool-videos-starring-wiring-diagram-human-brain.html

Brown Neuroscience Graduate Program alums Arjun Bansal and Naveen Rao co-founded Nervana, which was recently acquired by Intel! Interested? See announcements through following links:

http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-buys-nervana-systems-for-at-least-350-million-2016-8?r=UK&IR=T

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3105886/hardware/intel-snaps-up-nervana-for-a-crash-course-on-deep-learning.html

The Grad program is proud to announce that three of our students – Diana Burk, Erica Grodin and Torrey Truszkowski – were inducted into the Brown Sigma Xi chapter earlier this spring.  Congratulations!