American Legion Family Brain Sciences Awards go to Nicole Scott and Michael Powell
The American Legion Family Brain Sciences Award is presented each year to two graduate students who have excelled in their training and research. At the October 19th 2011 American Legion and University of Minnesota Lecture in Brain Sciences, President Jim Kellogg of the Brain Sciences Foundation handed the awards to Nicole Scott and Michael Powell, both pre-doctoral candidates in the Graduate Program for Cognitive Science.
Nicole Scott holds a master's degree in primatology from Roehampton University in London, England, where she wrote her dissertation on gestural communication in chimpanzees.
Michael Powell is a veteran who served for two years in England and one year in South Korea. Michael plans to study neural correlates of language using magneto-encephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
American Legion Briefed on Brain Sciences
Members of the National Rehabilitation Commission visited the medical center Aug. 30 and were addressed by Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos, medical director of the Brain Sciences Center, which was established in the 1990s with Legion support.
(from On the Beat, August-September 2011, photo: April Eilers, Medical Media)
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Kody Zalewski comes to us from Milwaukee, WI and is a junior at the University of Minnesota majoring in Neuroscience. Kody is here on a work study program at the BSC under the tutelage of Dr. Georgopoulos. His primary interest at this point is cognitive neuroscience.
We welcome Rosa Vydrova M.D., who will be studying magneto-encephalography (MEG) methods and data analysis with Dr. Georgopoulos and colleagues. Dr. Vydrova comes to the BSC from the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the Motol University hospital, which serves as a learning centre for the 2nd Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague. While at the Motol University hospital, she performed pre-operative brain-mapping for the epilepsy surgery team.
Alexandra Alcorn will be a Research Assistant with the PTSD Project at the BSC while she works toward a BA in Biology, Society and Environment at the University of Minnesota. After graduation, Alexandra plans to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology, focusing on PTSD, anxiety disorders and panic disorder.
