Category: award

Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who submit abstracts to the SfN Annual Meeting can apply for Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience.  These awards recognize people who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research.

TPDA recipients receive:

• Travel stipend ($1,000 for trainees in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico or $2,500 for trainees based in other countries) to attend the SfN Annual Meeting.
• Complimentary SfN Annual Meeting registration.

All recipients must present their abstract during a special TPDA poster session on Saturday, October 5 and attend two professional development workshops during the meeting.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) cohort!  Applications will be accepted through 11 pm (PT) on April 18, 2024. 

BRAINS is an NINDS-funded, national program dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion in neuroscience. BRAINS uses a unique cohort-based professional development approach to explicitly address the inclusion, retention, and advancement of early career neuroscientists from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. The BRAINS experience positively impacts participants’ career trajectories, especially in academic neuroscience, and creates a perpetually empowering community.

BRAINS participants are early career (pre-tenure) Ph.D. scientists in neuroscience-related fields who are members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups or are individuals with disabilities. 2024 participants will join a community of around 180 neuroscientists who are thriving in their careers.

A 2022 participant described their BRAINS experience as follows: “Participating in BRAINS gave me a stronger identity as a neuroscientist… [BRAINS] prepared me for success in [my] transition, both in terms of professional development, but also in serving as a reminder that I do belong in academic neuroscience research.”

We look forward to welcoming the next cohort into the BRAINS community.  Learn more about the BRAINS program and access our application by visiting our website (www.BRAINS.washington.edu). Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at brains@uw.edu.

Sincerely,

The BRAINS Team

Dr. Sheri Mizumori, BRAINS PI and Professor of Psychology, University of Washington

Dr. Joyce Yen, BRAINS co-Director and Director UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change

Dr. Claire Horner-Devine, BRAINS co-Director and Founder, Counterspace Consulting

Applications for the Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award are now being accepted.  This award “recognizes SfN chapter members who have made outstanding contributions to public communication, outreach, and education about neuroscience through activities such as classroom engagement, social media campaigns, etc, typically at the high school level or below.”

Update:  The coupon code has been issued and is no longer available.

One coupon code for 50% off one 2024 student or postdoctoral membership to the Society for Neuroscience is currently available.  The first person to make a request will receive the coupon.  To redeem the discount, the trainee will enter the unique code on the Shopping Cart page prior to entering their credit card information.

To receive the coupon code, please contact Eric Chudler at chudler@uw.edu.

Congratulations to four University of Washington students who have received $500 travel awards from the Pacific Cascade Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience:

Rich Henderson will present “Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation Improves Exoskeleton Assisted Walking in Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting (February 15-17, 2024; Boston, MA).

Mara Kapsner-Smith will present “Auditory Feedback Perturbation of Vocal Parameters Does Not Elicit a Laryngeal Stabilization Response” at the Madonna Motor Speech Conference (February 21-24, 2024; San Diego, CA).

Jingyuan Li will present “Self-supervised Behavior Modeling with Dense Keypoint Tracking” at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience — COSYNE 2024 meeting (February 29 – March 5, 2024; Lisbon, Portugal).

Catherine Rasgaitis will present “Investigating the Neural and Ocular Markers of Facial Perception” at the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Conference (April 10-13, 2024; Toronto, Canada).

Travel awards for undergraduate and graduate students are now available.  Please download, complete and return the application to Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.:

[Travel Award Application]