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Ally Williams receives Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award
2023 CNT Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) student Ally Williams (currently at Mississippi State University) was recently awarded a 2024 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award. During her time in the CNT REU program, Ally worked in the lab of Andrea Stocco.
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October New Papers
New papers by CNT personnel: Hodgkiss, D.D., Williams, A.M.M., Shackleton, C.S., Samejima, S., Balthazaar, S.J.T., Lam, T., Krassioukov, A.V. and Nightingale, T.E. Ergogenic effects of spinal cord stimulation on exercise performance following spinal cord injury. Front. Neurosci., Sec. Autonomic Neuroscience, Volume 18 – 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1435716. Cho, H., Benjaber, M., Gkogkidis C.A., Buchheit, M., Ruiz-Rodriguez, J.F.,…
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Upcoming Seminars
Title: Splitting attention into its atomic components Host: Raj Rao Abstract: Every day, our senses face an information overload. How does our brain select what information is relevant for behavior and what is not? This is the central question driving our research: to understand the neural basis of the cognitive capacity that we intuitively understand…
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2nd Annual Neuroscience & Society Virtual Career Fair
UW CNT members Tim Brown and Asad Beck will be speakers at the 2nd Annual Neuroscience & Society Virtual Career Fair. Dates: September 9-12, 2024Time: 4-6 PM Pacific Tim Brown will also lead a discussion at the Pacific Science Center (Seattle, WA) event “Science & a Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” This is…
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Polina Anikeeva: New head of MIT DMSE
MIT CNT Deputy Director Polina Anikeeva has been named the new head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Dr. Anikeeva is also the director of the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center and associate director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics.
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Young Scholars Program-REACH: A must for every high schooler’s summer
Shreyas Bulusu (Henry M. Jackson High School, Mill Creek, WA) YSP-REACH provides insight about neuroscience to high school students in a variety of ways and has benefited me immensely. The foundational knowledge I received from the program not only helped me start summer productively but also allowed me to begin to appreciate neuroscience. The introduction…
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Courtnie Paschall: Husky 100!
Former CNT student Courtnie Paschall, who is also the founder of Invirtualis, Inc., has been named to the Husky 100!
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Brain Health Learning Network Grant Awarded
CNT Executive Director/Education Director Eric Chudler was recently awarded a grant from the Dana Foundation to create the Brain Health Learning Network. Program videos can be viewed on the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute website.
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A new kind of chip for wireless communication
The work of CNT faculty member Chris Rudell to create a wireless chip for many types of devices is described in an article from the UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Responses of cortical neurons to intracortical microstimulation in awake primates
Authors: Richy Yun, Jonathan H. Mishler, Steve I. Perlmutter, Rajesh P.N. Rao and Eberhard E. Fetz Publication: eNeuro Date: April 10, 2023 Abstract Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is commonly used in many experimental and clinical paradigms; however, its effects on the activation of neurons are still not completely understood. To document the responses of cortical neurons…
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A far-reaching impact: Teachers design curriculum to empower the next generation of engineers, researchers and scientists
Aleenah Ansari The Research Experience for Teachers program at the CNT instructs middle and high school teachers on how to introduce students to neural engineering in an inclusive, engaging and thoughtful way, while at the same time, it provides an immersive research experience for the teachers themselves. Chris Calvin, a science teacher at Mount Rainier…
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When science teachers return for multiple years of the CNT’s Research Experience for Teachers program, everyone benefits
Wayne Gillam The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program is supporting middle and high school teachers who return to the Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) year-after-year, benefiting not only those teachers’ students and peer educators, but the CNT’s education programs and researchers as well. Phelana Pang, a middle school science teacher at the Seattle Girls’ School, first…
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High school teachers to share their neural engineering lesson plans nationally
Wayne Gillam For over two years, high school teachers, Larry Bencivengo and Benjamin Hart, have been teaching and sharing neural engineering curriculum they developed together at the CNT. They are now poised to take their lesson plans to a national stage. The old saying, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day.…
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In RET program, teachers turn summers into science
Eleanor Cummins For middle and high school teachers, summers are a time to recharge after a long school year. It can be a rare chance to travel or spend quality time with friends and family. But for the past four years, a small group of Seattle-area educators have elected to spend their summers on the…
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Teachers head back to the lab for summer
Mary Guiden A career in education can be challenging, but it also has its perks. For middle and high school teachers, one benefit is having summers free for vacation and leisure time. Paul Zimmer, who teaches chemistry at South Kitsap High School, opted for something else this year. He joined five other educators in a Research…
