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Congratulations to Tom Daniel (CSNE, Interim Director) for being named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences-Organismic Biology & Ecology.

CSNE faculty members Joan Sanders, Ph.D. and Brian Hafner, Ph.D.

The William T. Grant Scholars program supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise.

The NIH invites applications for R01 awards to support Bioengineering Research Grants (BRGs) for basic and applied multi-disciplinary research that addresses important biological, bioengineering or medical research problems. The BRGs support multi-disciplinary research performed in a single laboratory or by a small number of investigators that applies an integrative, systems approach to develop knowledge and/or methods to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat disease or to understand health and behavior.

Intel is excited to be announcing the 2013 rollout of the Early Career Faculty Honor Program. This is the second year Intel has offered this program. In 2012 Intel honored 11 faculty members in the US with awards. Intel’s Early Career Faculty Honor Program provides financial and networking support to those faculty members who are early in their careers and who show great promise as future academic leaders in disruptive computing technologies.

Congratulations to CSNE member Fred Rieke!  Fred has been chosen as the recipient of the University of Washington 2013 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, which "recognizes a faculty member who excels at the intense, one-on-one mentoring that is the hallmark of graduate study". The award will be presented at the Awards of Excellence ceremony on Thursday, June 13, 2013.
 

The Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation challenges science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate students across the nation to submit innovative ideas to prepare them for tomorrow's opportunities and challenges.

Who: Currently enrolled STEM graduate students (see additional eligibility criteria)

What: A 1000 to 1500 word submission responding to this challenge.

There are only two weeks left to apply to Penn Center for Neuroscience and Society Summer Fellowships in Teaching Neuroethics. Complete applications are due by midnight EST (UTC-5) on Friday, February 15, 2013.  From June 24-29, 2013, CNS will host 16 fellows with primary expertise in neuroscience for a week-long intensive course on neuroethics, the ethical, legal and societal implications of neuroscience.

Program Description: The intent of this initiative is to support a collaboration of basic, clinical and population researchers from different specialties whose collective efforts will lead to new approaches, not only to improve the prevention of stroke, but to also expand upon the previous Bugher Stroke initiatives by inviting research on recovery after a stroke; including the areas of repair, regeneration, neuro-plasticity and rehabilitation.

Vamsi Talla, a University of Washington Electrical Engineering graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Josh Smith, won the best student paper award at the WiSNet 2013 IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks for his CSNE-funded research. Vamsi's paper, with co-authors  Michael Buettner, David Wetherall, and Joshua R. Smith, was titled, "Hybrid Analog-Digital Backscatter Platform for High Data Rate, Battery-Free Sensing."