PROFESSOR AMY ROWAT FEATURED ON MYSCIENCE

Link: http://www.myscience.us/wire/leading_chefs_to_participate_in_ucla_s_science_and_food_public_events-2013-ucla

PROFESSOR AMY ROWAT FEATURED IN THE UCLA NEWSROOM

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/leading-chefs-will-participate-244086.aspx?link_page_rss=244086

PROFESSOR JUDITH SMITH RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR SERVICE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Link: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judith-smith-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-for-strengthening-undergrad-ed-.aspx

PROFESSOR REGGIE EDGERTON RECEIVES THE PRESTIGIOUS J. ALLYN TAYLOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Professor V. Reggie Edgerton, PhD, UCLA distinguished professor in the Department of Integrated Biology and Physiology, will receive the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine at the Western’s Leaders in Innovation Dinner on November 19th, 2012. Edgerton‚Äôs research pioneered the rehabilitation strategy of treadmill training after a spinal cord injury, and the added benefits of epidural electrical stimulation.

Link: http://www.robarts.ca/evening-celebrate-spinal-cord-research

PROFESSOR DAVID GLANZMAN FEATURED ON CURRENT BIOLOGY

Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212010780

PROFESSOR RONALD COOPER RECEIVES A DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD

Non-senate faculty winners of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award are Senior Lecturer Stuart Biegel; Ronald Cooper of integrative biology and physiology; and Dr. Michael Lazarus, associate clinical professor of internal medicine.

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FORMER POST-DOC OF PROFESSOR BARNEY SCHLINGER, DR. LUKE REMAGE-HEALEY WINS FRANK A. BEACH AWARD

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is proud to announce that the recipient of the 2012 Frank A. Beach Award is Dr. Luke Remage-Healey, assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The award is made to a new investigator, normally within eight years post-PhD (or MD) who shows exceptional promise for making significant contributions to the field of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. Dr. Remage-Healey will be honored at the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Social at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, and he will present his lecture at SBN’s annual meeting in Atlanta in June 2013. Dr. Remage-Healey worked in the laboratory of Michael Romero at Tufts as an undergraduate, received his PhD working in the lab of Andy Bass at Cornell, and then did a postdoc with Barney Schlinger at UCLA. Dr. Remage-Healey’s website describes his work as follows:

“Our lab is focused on the study of behavioral physiology, specifically the non-traditional regulation of brain function and behavior by steroid hormones. Steroids are produced within discrete neural circuits (‘neurosteroids’) and can therefore influence behavior via local and acute actions within those circuits. We study these phenomena in songbirds using a variety of technical approaches including in vivo microdialysis, electrophysiology, immunocytochemistry, and neuropharmacology. Songbirds offer a unique model system in which brain steroid production is widespread and especially pronounced, and in which the development and expression of a suite of social behaviors is accessible in the laboratory and natural environments.”

Congratulations to Dr. Remage-Healey!

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PROF REGGIE EDGERTON FEATURED IN THE UCLA NEWSROOM

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/documentary-chronicles-remarkable-236559.aspx

PROF FERNANDO GOMEZ-PINILLA IS FEATURED ON UCLA NEWSROOM

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar-ucla-233992.aspx