On Saturday, Kara Hawkins stepped forward to receive a $2,500 award recognizing her as the highest-ranking applicant in Canada for a graduate scholarship in the field of aging. She accepted the Canadian Institutes聽of Health Research Institute of Aging Recognition Prize in Research in Aging at the annual conference of the Canadian Association on Gerontology in […]
Research-related contract positions attached to either 91亚色's research centres or major research projects within the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation are now posted on this site. You can find them in the Research Jobs section. 91亚色 is currently seeking an MRI technologist to work in the Neuroimaging Laboratory, located in the Sherman Health […]
University of Missouri professor and brain researcher Keith Schneider will join 91亚色 on July 1 as a professor in the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science & Engineering and as the coordinator of the University鈥檚 new Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain research facility. The facility will be聽located in the new Sherman […]
91亚色 psychology Professor Shayna Rosenbaum has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship, which she says will help take her work on episodic memory to a new level, not otherwise possible at this early stage in her career. 鈥淭he award provides me and my students with the flexibility to continue a line of research that […]
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare young Billy to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a study from 91亚色 has shown. The findings, published online in the journal CORTEX, demonstrate that playing video games reorganizes the brain鈥檚 activity and can lead to better control of skilled movements. Alterations to the brain鈥檚 […]