News & Announcements Archive

Summer 2023 PURA Recipient

The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR) recently announced the recipients of the President Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). Congratulations to Behavioral Biology Senior, Melodie Qian, for being part of the […]

David S. Olton Research Award Recipient for 2022-2023

We are please to announce that Priyal Patel has been chosen as the Olton Award Recipient for 2022-2023. Priyal is currently a Neuroscience and Public Health sophomore and does her […]

The Neural Links Between Voice and Thought

Junior behavioral biology major Jessica Dure has started a project to better reveal how communicative capabilities affect brain organization and evolution toward more advanced thinking. She is studying these linkages in Melopsittacus parrots, formally […]

Congratulations to Behavioral Biology alum Natalie Aston!

Congratulations to Behavioral Biology alum Natalie Aston on being named the CoSIDA Academic All American of the Year in volleyball for 2022. Natalie graduated with honors this past Fall and […]

Congratulations to David S. Olton Research Award and Behavioral Biology Research Grant recipients

Emmanuel Osikpa, a senior Behavioral Biology major, won the David S. Olton Research Award for his project in the Nielsen lab “Biological Motion Perception as a Probe for Motion Integration: […]

Undergraduate Research Symposium now called DREAMS (Save the Date)

The Nu Rho Psi’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, which is usually held in the Fall semesters for students to present their research, is now handled by the HOUR Office!  Students now […]

Privacy or Prevention?

Privacy or Prevention?

How willing are young people to engage in phone-based “digital contact tracing” to curb the pandemic? Sophomore Lauren Maytin discusses research on the topic in the Spring 2021 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine. She helped develop a survey given to more […]

Behavioral Biology Departmental Honors

Congratulations to the following Behavioral Biology students who have completed all requirements for Behavioral Biology Departmental Honors!! Katherine Armenta Jessica Montoya Paige Upright Talia Feingold Edward Yin Tiffany Wong

David S. Olton Research Award Recipient for 2020-2021

We are pleased to announce that Yoko Yamashita has been chosen as the Olton Award Recipient for 2020-2021. Yoko, a junior Neuroscience major, works in the lab of Dr Amy […]

Sophomore publishes COVID-19 digital surveillance research

Lauren Maytin, a sophomore behavioral biology major, is lead author in a recently published study on young adult’s attitudes and perceptions toward COVID-19 digital surveillance.