IHN’s End-of-Year Wrap-Up

As 2024 draws to a close, the Institute for Human Neuroscience takes a look back at all we’ve accomplished. In doing so, we celebrate every achievement, welcome every new face, and commemorate each event. Here is just some of what we’ve been up to in 2024!

IHN celebrating Halloween with a costume contest.

• Published 48 peer-reviewed manuscripts

  • 39 first/last authorship

• 4 new grants awarded

  • Recipients: Dr. Giorgia Picci (1), Dr. Tony Wilson (3)

  • Total of $10,092,313 in funding

• Started 10 new studies across our 7 labs

• Hired 31 new team members

  • 21 research assistants

  • 3 graduate students

  • 6 staff

  • 1 lab director

• Launched the Translational Motor Imaging Laboratory, directed by Dr. Rachel K. Spooner

• Attended 15 conferences

  • 10 national

  • 5 international

    • Australia

    • Canada

    • South Korea

    • Czech Republic

    • Switzerland

• Hosted 8 summer scholars as part of our Summer Undergraduate Brain Research Program

  • Hailing from

    • Nebraska (3)

    • New York (1)

    • Utah (1)

    • Rhode Island (1)

    • Massachusetts (2)

• Celebrated the graduation of 3 doctoral students

  • Dr. Abraham Killanin

  • Dr. Mikki Schantell

  • Dr. Seth Springer

• Celebrated 9 RAs starting graduate school

  • School

    • Creighton University

    • Marquette University

    • Minnesota State University

    • Northwestern University

    • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    • University of North Carolina at Charlotte

    • Virginia Tech

  • Area of study

    • Translational Biology

    • Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology

    • Clinical Psychology

    • Speech Language Pathology

    • Medicine

    • Neuroscience

We look with great anticipation to what 2025 will bring!

From all of us here at IHN, Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!