Kudos: Neuroscience students receive honors
This Spring, two students in the BHSI’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Ph.D. Program were recognized for their exceptional academic and extracurricular interests and achievements. We are definitely proud.
Hudgens-Haney joins Blue Key Honor Society membership
In April, Matt Hudgens-Haney was initiated into the University of Georgia chapter of the Blue Key Honor Society. Hudgens-Haney, who works in the laboratory of psychology professor Brett Clementz, is using human neuroimaging research to better understand pathologies such as schizophrenia, pathological gambling, and narcissism.
The Blue Key Honor Society is a national organization with members committed to “leadership in student life, high scholastic achievement, service to others, citizenship and an adherence to principles of faith,” according to its website. It was established in 1924 at the University of Florida; the second chapter was established at UGA in 1926.
Sciolino receives UGA Grad School dissertation fellowship
Natale Sciolino was recently selected for a UGA Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award for 2013-14. These competitive doctoral assistantships are awarded to exceptional doctoral students in their final year of study, and allow the student to devote time to the completion of their dissertation.
Sciolino, who works in the laboratory of psychology professor Phil Holmes, is interested in the neurobiological basis for mental disorders. For her dissertation work, she is examining how exercise may require galanin in the brain to be protective against stress and the release of an adrenaline-like compound called norepinephrine.