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2020-2021 Academic Year
Fall Semester 2020
- Symptoms all in your head—or in your gut? Maybe a little of both.
- UMD Biologist Awarded $1.5M to Develop Brain Mapping Techniques
- Two UMCP NACS Students Awarded Fellowships to Train in UMB PIN Laboratories
- Ashley Chapin advances as international finalist in Three-Minute Thesis Competition
- One Size Does Not Fit All
- Never Fear, the Maryland Threat Countdown is Here
- Cornelia Fermüller is PI for 'NeuroPacNet,' a $1.75M NSF funding award
- Sci-Fi Social Distancing?
- Babadi research to reveal computational principles for the brain's sensory processing and behavior
- New algorithms for estimating the latent dynamics underlying biological processes
2019-2020 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2020
- BBI Awards Seed Grants to Six Interdisciplinary Projects
- Engineering Graduate Students Win UMD 3MT Competition
- Call for Pediatric Medical Device Pitches Focused on COVID-19
- Promoting Diversity and Addressing Unconscious Bias
- Ingestible device research advances, enters new phase
- Behtash Babadi promoted to associate professor
- Ashley Chapin a campus-wide winner of the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
- BBI Launches QED ("Quarantine EDucation") Virtual Seminar Series
- Clark School faculty 'AIM-HI' to address major health challenges
- Spurring research group creativity in the time of COVID-19
- BBI Researchers Among Those Selected for UMD Coronavirus Research Seed Funds
- In Race With Virus, Researchers Speed Development of Medical Equipment
- Protection Collections Abound for Local Health Care Workers
- Dean Pines Named University of Maryland's 34th President
- Hu, Bernat Featured in Society for Women Engineers magazine
- Visual Deprivation Lowers Threshold for Enzymatic Pathway that Rejuvenates Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain
- UMD STEM Students Take the Stage in The Nutcracker
- Institute Hosts AMBIC December Conference, Unveils New Research
- Brain and Behavior Initiative Hosts 3rd Annual Seed Grant Symposium
- Chapin, Bowen win in Bioscience Day poster session
- New Perspectives on Some of the Oldest Questions about Human Language
- NIH announces HEAL Initiative Grants for UMD faculty
- AESoP symposium features speakers, organizers with UMD ties
- Shamma, colleagues publish in Journal of Neuroscience
- UMD Researchers Develop Technique to Advance Cell-Based Systems
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- NSF Awards $1M Grant to UMD Researchers
- Ghodssi Receives Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
- NIH Awards $2M to UMD Entomologist Megan Fritz
- BIOE, UMB to Host October Symposium
2018-2019 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2019
- Simon invited speaker at implantable auditory prostheses conference
- BBI Announces FY19 Seed Grant Awards
- Ghodssi gives distinguished lecture on devices for gastrointestinal health at EPFL in Switzerland
- 125 Years of Daring Vision, Lasting Impact
- UMD researchers awarded $5.3M NIH BRAIN Initiative grant
- UMD auditory cortex research featured in Nature Neuroscience
- Radio interview with Jonathan Simon on "the cocktail party problem"
- State and University Officials Celebrate Launch of Biomedical Device Institute
2017-2018 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2018
- BBI FY18 Seed Grant Winners Announced
- Maryland researchers develop computational approach to understanding brain dynamics
- Maryland researchers awarded $1M DARPA Lagrange program cooperative agreement
- Improving speech intelligibility testing with new EEG methods
- BBI February 2018 Newsletter
- UMD researchers find listening to sound changes how neurons interact within the brain
- BBI FY18 Seed Grant Program
- BBI Sponsors Animal Communication and Human Language Conference
- Losert, Waks receive prestigious fellowship in APS
- BBI affiliated faculty receive $8 million NIH grant to combat hearing loss in older people
- MSE Students Selected as Finalists for the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition
- BBI Holds 2017 Seed Grant Symposium
- BBI Seed Grant Symposium Agenda and Abstracts
- Researchers part of two NSF Neural & Cognitive Systems grants worth more than $1.2 million
2016-2017 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2017
- Kavli Foundation to sponsor the BBI-Kavli Distinguished Speaker Series
- Prof. Robert Newcomb to Lead FIRE Research Stream on Neural Systems and Neurotechnologies
- Jonathan Fritz promoted to Research Scientist
- Ghodssi, Bentley receive NSF EAGER grant to develop ingestible capsules for medical diagnosis
- BBI FY17 Seed Grant Winners Announced
- Fritz, Shamma are collaborators on new DARPA Targeted Neuroplasticity Training Program
- Simon is co-editor of new Springer auditory research book
- UMD Team Chases Solar-Powered Victory
- Brain and Behavior Initiative partners with Arena Stage
- UMD Researchers Make Strides in Schizophrenia Diagnosis Research
- Kanold study shows autism may begin early in brain development
- NSF Science Now video features 'aging brain' research of Anderson, Simon and Presacco
- Article about Otomagnetics in Action on Hearing Loss newsletter
- BBI FY17 Seed Grant Program
- It’s not your ears, it’s your brain
- Simon delivers three invited lectures in China
- J. Carson Smith and colleagues find that after Just 10 Days of Rest, Brain Benefits of Exercise Diminish - NY Times Article
- IMPORTANT: EXTENSION for BBI Workshop Deadline
- Chellappa Named Inaugural Recipient of IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award
- Dr. Elizabeth Redcay and colleagues receive $2.6 million NIMH grant to study autism
- NIMH Awards $2.2 million grant to Dr. Jack Blanchard to study social affiliation deficits in psychosis
- Vaughn-Cooke speaks at virtual reality event on Capitol Hill
2015-2016 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2016
- Thomas Winkler wins dean's doctoral research award
- Northrop Grumman's Christopher Jones to Deliver Spring Commencement Remarks
- Maynord and Guha are Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship winners
- New Findings Reveal Social Thinking in the Infant Brain
- Nine UMD Faculty Receive Prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Shackman lab awarded $3.4M NIH grant to clarify the origins of anxiety disorders and depression
- Maryland research contributes to Google’s AlphaGo AI system
- BBI Seed Grant winners announced
- UMD Faculty Member Serves on International Gene Drive Study Panel
- Improving fitness may counteract brain atrophy in older adults, UMD study shows
- Jonathan Simon gives keynote speech at SPIRE workshop
- Phillips, Newman involved in NSF graduate training grant in language processes and technologies
- Babadi Wins NSF CAREER Award
- Moving matters: Ethnocentric behavior decreases when societal mobility rises
- William Fagan and team find whooping cranes stay the course when they follow a wise old bird
- BioE Researchers Develop Nano-guided Cell Networks as Conveyors of Molecular Communication
- Jonathan Simon is invited speaker at Paris Workshop on Decoding of Sound and Brain
- Brain and Behavior Initiative brings together researchers from across the University of Maryland
- Grad students Winkler, Subramanian rank highly in U21 3MT video contest
- Alumna wins MacArthur 'genius' grant
- Wolfgang Losert and colleagues open door to measuring, engineering cell behaviors
- Hadar Ben-Yoav accepts tenure-track position at Ben-Gurion University
- Arthur Popper talks about the not-so-silent world of the ocean
- Ratner, Newman demonstrate benefits of word repetition to infants
- Lisa Taneyhill to serve on International Gene Drive Study Panel
- Microsystems Graduate Student Seminar Series
- Elisabeth Smela named ADVANCE Professor
- Dan Butts speaks on neural computations
- Dr. Gaudry Awarded Whitehall Foundation Grant
2014-2015 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2015
- Dr. Beth Stevens (NACS alum) Presidential Speaker at SfN 2015
- William Hodos receives Lifetime Achievement Award
- Sensing Drugged Driving: UMD researchers receive grant for roadside drug test
- Samira Anderson's research shows effects of aging on speech processing
- Catherine Carr Named 2015 Distinguished University Professor
- Jonathan Simon is invited lecturer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course
- Jonathan Simon is invited speaker at CHScom 2015
- Michele Gelfand identifies useful negotiation strategies for 'Honor Cultures'
- Rochelle Newman's study concludes parents mixing languages has no impact on children's vocabulary development
- Reza Ghodssi named AVS Fellow
- UMD among top universities for most researchers awarded DOD MURI Grants
- Ricardo Araneda awarded NIH R01 Grant
- Food safety, energy storage & video authentication innovations honored at UMD's Annual Invention of the Year Awards
- Depireux, Masri win $25K UMB UMVentures Award
- Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermüller help robots learn by watching videos
- Shihab Shamma named to NIH advisory council
- Jonathan Simon wins $1.5M NIH NIDCD grant for 'auditory scene' research
- BBI faculty members named 2014 AAAS Fellows
- Catherine Carr and colleagues' paper top 5 most-read article in JEB in 2014
- Ghodssi, Bentley patent compounds that give new way to kill drug-resistant bacteria
- Dean Gregory Ball Leads Flagship 2020 Working Group
- Muro research team explores new treatments of Lysosomal storage diseases
- Rubloff shows a billion holes can make a battery
- Carl Lejuez pioneers mental health treatment in Middle East
- Alumnus Matteo Mischiati is lead author of sensorimotor control study in Nature
- Greg Ball named AAAS Fellow
- Edward Redish wins Excellence in Physics Education Award
- Ben Shapiro shows pulsing magnetic fields could push drugs to deep targets
- Engineering systems for mental health work by Espy-Wilson, Resnik, Vaughn-Cooke featured in Newsweek
- Resnik, Vaughn-Cooke interviewed about mental health tracking in Newsweek
- Elizabeth Quinlan turns back the clock to treat brain trauma, disorders
- Losert, Kanold receive grant under new federal BRAIN Initiative
- Brain-behavior initiative workshop draws 160 faculty, deans, adminstrators for wide-ranging discussions
- Lisa Taneyhill to study cell "glue" important in disease
2013-2014 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2014
- Eric Haag and colleagues find “killer sperm” prevents mating between worm species
- Losert named CMNS associate dean for research
- Jonathan Simon and UMB's Elliot Hong win Research and Innovation Seed Grant
- Shamma receives NIH grant to study spectro-temporal plasticity in the brain's neuronal networks
- International research partnership leads to major publication on controlling living cells with artificial cells
- Alumna Kirsten Bohn's bat song research is Science cover story
- Wolfgang Losert, Joshua Singer promoted
- David Jacobs' app redefines bird watching for the 21st Century
- Jonathan Simon promoted to full professor
- Gelfand goes beyond red vs blue: Study of states finds 'tight' vs 'loose'
- J. Carson Smith shows exercise keeps hippocampus healthy in people at risk for Alzheimer's Disease
- Nathan Fox elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- UMD neuroscience researchers publish in the journal Neuron
- Greg Ball takes the helm as Dean of UMD's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Carr, Bierman find canal between ears helps alligators pinpoint sound
- Losert lab designs 'RoboClam' that bests digging machines
- Kanold study in Neuron: A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes
- 'Terrapin Teachers': National UTeach Program expands to Maryland
- Simon, Ding publish research in NeuroImage
2012-2013 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2013
Fall Semester 2012
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