Congratulations to the MBB Class of 2008!
We are pleased to extend our congratulations to MBB’s Class of 2008! This month, we have graduated 42 seniors, 31 receiving Certificates in Mind/Brain/Behavior, and 11 completing a Secondary Field in Mind/Brain/Behavior. Our certificate awardees include the following students (with concentration, thesis title, thesis advisor information):
- Isabelle Berner
Psychology
The influence of foreignness and ethnicity on hiring
Advisor: Elizabeth Spelke
- Erin Blackstock
Psychology
Leveling the playing field: Examination of the relationship between performance goals, stress responses, and stress appraisal
Advisors: Wendy Berry Mendes and Modupe Akinola
- John Byun
Neurobiology
The NOTCH3 pathway in CADASIL pathogenesis: Analysis and review
Advisor: Stephen Blacklow
- Theresa Cheng
Psychology
The neural correlates of prospection within the right hippocampus
Advisors: Daniel Schacter and Donna Addis
- Elizabeth Clain
Neurobiology
Pilot studies using gene therapy to treat narcolepsy in mice
Advisor: Thomas Scammell
- Kara Furman
Human Evolutionary Biology
Music in the eye of the beholder: Can music change the way we see others?
Advisor: Mark Tramo
- Ivan Kotchetkov
Neurobiology
Developmental anatomy of corticostriatal projection neurons
Advisors: Jeffrey Macklis and Jonathan Matsui
- Victor Lan
Biology, mTOR pathway activation in a rat model of hypoxia-induced seizures
Advisors: Frances Jensen
- Matthew Lebowitz
Psychology
Consumption of science and its effects on attitudes
Advisors: Steven Pinker and Carole Hooven
- Benjamin Lee
Biology
Altered glutamate receptor signaling in tuberous sclerosis complex
Advisors: Frances Jensen and Florien Engert
- Alex Levin
Psychology
Indirect speech in bribery
Advisor: Steven Pinker
- Robert Luedeman
Psychology
Transferring localized facial learning across face-space
Advisor: Ken Nakayama
- Anna Reinert
Biology
Responses of the mouse vomeronasal organ to salivary compounds
Advisor: Catherine Dulac
- Richard Schwartz
History and Science
Outside the box: Reich, science, politics, and society 1930-1950
Advisor: Christopher Phillips
- Hasan Siddiqi
Neurobiology
Virus mediated overexpression of mutant alpha-synuclein in the rat substantia nigra as a model of synucleinopathy
Advisor: Ole Isacson
- Benjamin White
Neurobiology
Hair cell regeneration using zebrafish as a model to treat deafness
Advisor: Jonathan Matsui
- Anton Wintner
Philosophy
In defense of Berkeley’s theory of vision
Advisor: Susanna Siegel