The lab received great news this past week that current MSc student Sarah Kraeutner will be sticking around as she has been accepted into the PhD program in Psychology and Neuroscience. Sarah was also notified that she has been awarded a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship (NSGS). The NSGS is valued at $15 000 per year and is renewable for four years! Congratulations Sarah!
Lab member Sarah Kraeutner (second from left) was one of five students recognized by a BrightRed scholarship from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia. Sarah received her award from Dr. Stephen Phillips (fourth from left), a Heart and Stroke Foundation board member and stroke neurologist at a luncheon for student and faculty awardees. Congratulations Sarah!
October is the time of year when we celebrate the accomplishments of our recent graduates at Convocation. This year saw three MSc students complete their degrees including Ron, Ishika, and Alicia, with Ron and Ishika proudly walking across the stage to receive their degree. We missed Alicia, who is already off pursuing her next degree overseas.
We would like to officially welcome our new doctoral student Tony Ingram, master’s students Kerry McInnes, Monica MacDonald, and Chris Friesen, and honours students Jack Solomon and Laura MacKenzie. Looking forward to a great year!
We would like to congratulate three of our master’s students, Ron Bishop, Alicia Gionfriddo, and Ishika Sharma, for their successful thesis defenses this past week! We wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavours, and you will be missed!
The lab would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Research Coordinator, Lauren Dunphy. Lauren completed her honours with Aaron Newman here at Dalhousie before completing a MSc in Psychology at Western University with Stefan Kohler. We are looking forward to working with you!
Congratulations to graduate student Sarah Kraeutner, who was awarded a Heart and Stroke Foundation BrightRed Graduate Research Award. The goal of the BrightRed Graduate Research Awards program is to recognize excellent emerging cardiovascular and cerebrovascular researchers in Nova Scotia. Great work, Sarah!
At the recent Integrated Health Research Training Partnership (IHRTP) Graduate Student Research Day, graduate student Ishika Sharma won first place for her poster presentation, “Devising a modified flanker task for assessment of attention after stroke”.
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.
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