Several of our graduate students will be attending the CIHR Young Investigators Forum for the Institute for Circulatory and Respiratory Health in Edmonton from May 26-28. The following students received travel awards and will be presenting posters:
Ross Story
Alicia Gionfriddo
Ishika Sharma
Sarah Kraeutner
Congratulations to former MSc student Alana Fleet on her second publication from her work in the lab. Her paper, “Modified constraint-induced movement therapy for upper extremity recovery post stroke: What is the evidence?” will be published in Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation later this year.
Congratulations to incoming MSc student Monica MacDonald who was awarded an NSERC CGS-M for 2014/2015. The CGS-M is a national level scholarship acknowledging the top MSc students in the country. The funding will support her work examining how connections in the brain are altered when learning or re-learning motor tasks.
Research focusing on the application of real-time neurofeedback was featured on the front page of Halifax’s Chronicle Herald recently (March 25th) as well as on CTV News Live at 5. Access the story here and video clip here.
Congratulations go out to Kerry McInnes who has been awarded a Summer Studentship from the Canadian Stroke Network. She will be working on our real-time neuroimaging project, with a focus on establishing the protocol on an EEG platform.
Kerry will also be joining the lab as a MSc Rehabilitation Research student this fall. Welcome and congratulations, Kerry!
Congratulations to graduate students Ron, Alicia, and Sarah, as they each will be presenting posters at the Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting this coming June in Hamburg, Germany!
During the week of March 10-14th, the Laboratory for Brain Recovery and Function organized and engaged in “Brain Awareness Week”. BAW is a campaign that seeks to increase public knowledge surrounding the importance and benefit of brain research. This global event is meant to engage people of all ages and provide a point of contact between the community, researchers, and organizations.
Dr. Shaun Boe, with the assistance of Janet Green, was the coordinator for BAW Halifax this year. Due to the support of local volunteers, groups, and associations, many free events were offered this year, including:
Thank you to all of those who joined us in this year’s Brain Awareness Week. It could not have been possible without the support and enthusiasm of all those involved!
In promoting Brain Awareness Week events this year, members of the Laboratory for Brain Recovery and Function have been featured by several local news organizations.
Dr. Boe was interviewed on CTV News at 5 about brain health. View clip here.
Graduate student Alicia Gionfriddo and lab director Dr. Shaun Boe were featured in a radio clip on CBC Information Morning. Listen here.
Dr. Shaun Boe was interviewed on CTV Morning Live. View clip here.
Lab Director Dr. Shaun Boe and graduate student Ron Bishop were recently featured in a TEDxNovaScotia promotional video for this year’s conference, “Chances Worth Taking: Innovation in a Time of Indifference” along with other innovators from Nova Scotia. Watch the video here!
Graduate student, Ishika Sharma, has been awarded a prestigious Dalhousie University Board of Governors’ Award recognizing her work in student government for the Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students and Dalhousie International Students Association.
Congratulations, Ishika!
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