{"id":326,"date":"2013-01-23T22:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/?p=326"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:34:03","slug":"two-nicolelis-lab-alumni-receive-prestigious-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Two Nicolelis Lab Alumni Receive Prestigious Research Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ghazanfar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-329\" title=\"ghazanfar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ghazanfar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ghazanfar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ghazanfar-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ghazanfar-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ghazanfar.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>Former Nicolelis Graduate Student, Dr. Asif Ghazanfar, now an Associate Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, has been named as a recipient of the 2013 Troland Award. The Troland Awards are given each year by the National Academy of Science to two outstanding young scientists to &#8220;recognize unusual achievement and further empirical research in psychology regarding the relationships of consciousness and the physical world&#8221; (from the National Academy of Sciences website). For more information on Dr. Ghazanfar and the Troland Award, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/psych.princeton.edu\/psychology\/research\/ghazanfar\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Ghazanfar&#8217;s home page<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/about-nas\/awards\/troland-research-awards.html\" target=\"_blank\">NAS Troland Award web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/costa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-328\" title=\"costa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/costa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Dr. Rui Costa, Principal Investigator in the Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, received the 2012 Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award. Dr. Costa, a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Nicolelis Lab, received the award during the society&#8217;s annual meeting in New Orleans in October. The award recognizes Dr. Costa&#8217;s work making &#8220;significant advances to complex neuroscience and neurological problems with elegant and innovative approaches\u201d (from the Society for Neuroscience website). Additional information is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/neuro.fchampalimaud.org\/en\/research\/investigators\/research-groups\/group\/Costa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Costa&#8217;s web page<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfn.org\/index.aspx?pagename=younginvestigator_10132012\" target=\"_blank\">Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nicolelis Graduate Student, Dr. Asif Ghazanfar, now an Associate Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, has been named as a recipient of the 2013 Troland Award. The Troland Awards are given each year by the National Academy of Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-findings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolelislab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}