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University Medalist Learned Value of Perseverance in Lab

  • by Gregory D Watry

During her second year of undergraduate research in the lab of Aldrin Gomes, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, Emily Eijansantos felt ready for a solo project. She’d spent her sophomore year learning the lab’s techniques and shadowing more experienced undergraduates. She felt prepared. But like many things in life, the project—studying ibuprofen’s effects on heart cells—had its hurdles.

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Ann Hedrick Elected as a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society

  • by Joseph S Kehe

Ann was elected by the Animal Behavior Executive Committee as a fellow. Fellows are members who have engaged in research in animal behavior for at least ten years and who in the opinion of the elected officers and current Fellows of the society have made distinguished contributions to the field.

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Discovering Curiosity: Age-Related Hearing Loss with Gregg Recanzone

  • by Gregory D Watry

As our bodies age, we all face some decline in our senses, and among the senses most susceptible to deterioration is hearing.

Hearing loss is a substantial problem for society. It’s the third most common physical condition after arthritis and heart disease and about 30 percent of adults between ages 65 and 74 and nearly half of people over 75 experience some difficulty hearing.  It’s a social problem, one that can lead to isolation and depression.

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A Mind for Service Earns Connor Grant the Veloyce Glenn Winslow Jr. Award

  • by Gregory D Watry

“Connor is an upbeat and enthusiastic learner, and has the type of energy, thirst for knowledge and an ability to understand complex systems that we should be recruiting into medicine.” -David Tom Cooke, Department of Surgery 

As a high school student in Brentwood, Tenn., Connor Grant thought his career future lay in business and marketing. That changed his junior year thanks to a family friend, an emergency room physician who invited Grant to shadow her during a shift.

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Discovering Curiosity: Art at the Zoo

Before delving into the world of endocrinology, Assistant Professor Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, wasn’t following the path of a traditional scientist. She’d studied studio art and psychology at both Skidmore College and Boston College and thought she wanted to pursue the artist’s life.   

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Emily Eijansantos is receiving the NPB Outstanding Senior Award

Emily Eijansantos is a Regents Scholar and a member of the University Honors Program for the last four years. She has won several awards including the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship, Pedrozzi Scholarship, first place in the HOSA Collegiate Medical Math Competition, UC Davis travel fellowship, and is currently finishing her NPB Honors thesis. Her undergraduate research has resulted in contributions to three publications, and she has presented her recent work at the Biophysical Society’s 62nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

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Training a Bee to Fly Upwind: Stacey Combes’ Research Reveals the Complex Biomechanics that Help Insects Survive

Associate Professor Stacey Combes has long been fascinated by how animals move. In her lab, she uses high-speed imaging at 1,000 to 5,000 frames per second to reveal the behaviors and physiological traits that shape insect behavior and survival. One thing she’s learned is that bees, which are critically important pollinators, are actually quite clumsy.

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Taylor Follansbee wins Hermann Handwerker prize

  • by Earl E Carstens

Congratulations to Taylor Follansbee, who received the Hermann Handwerker prize at the 9th World Congress on Itch, held in Wroclaw, Poland October 15-17, 2017. The Hermann Handwerker prize, named after a famous itch researcher, is awarded to a junior researcher who is judged to give the best scientific presentation at the biennial World Congress on Itch. The title of Taylor's presentation was: "Effects of itch and pain stimuli on rostral ventromedial medullary ON and OFF cells". The prize comes with a monetary award of $3,000.

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