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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 known as budgerigars and nicknamed budgies or parakeets. Read more about her research in the Spring 2022 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.
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 […]
Please join us in congratulating the following students as recipients of the David S. Olton Research Award and the Behavioral Biology Research Grant!
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?
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 […]