Congratulations to the 2025 CNLM Award Recipients
Award recipients will be celebrated on May 27, 2025 at the Award Ceremony. Invitations will be sent via email.
Undergraduate Student Awards
JAMES TAIT GOODRICH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Amanda Fang (Advisor: Kevin Beier, Ph.D.)
JAMES TAIT GOODRICH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Déja Lee (Michael Yassa, Ph.D.)
JAMES TAIT GOODRICH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Donya Mohammadi (Gyorgy Lur, Ph.D.)
Alexis Madrid (Advisor: Javier Diaz Alonso, Ph.D.)
Athena Nguyen (Advisor: Bryce Mander, Ph.D.)
Freddy Gonzalez (Advisor: Elizabeth Head, Ph.D.)
Nicholas Lew (Advisor: Eitan Schechtman, Ph.D.)
Lauren Nishitani (Advisor: Lisa Flanagan, Ph.D.)
Alan Mai (Advisor: Mathew Blurton-Jones, Ph.D.)
Cindy Pham (Advisor: Shahrdad Lotfipour, Ph.D.)
Hannah Vu (Advisor: Stephen Mahler, Ph.D.)
Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Awards
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Paula Assakura Miyazaki (Advisor: Norbert Fortin, Ph.D.)
Teamwork makes the brain work: How hippocampal and prefrontal regions interact to temporally organize our memories
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Mia Brantley (Advisor: Katherine Thompson-Peer, Ph.D.)
Dendrite repair: more than just the neuron's job
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Onwodi Ifejeokwu (UCI School of Medicine)
Mind Over Chemo: Preventing Brain Injury in Cancer Survivors
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Allison Morehouse (Advisor: Sara Mednick, Ph.D.)
Sleep, Hormones, and Memory: The Often Overlooked Impact of the Menstrual Cycle
JARED M. ROBERTS MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Abigail Flores (Advisor: Gyorgy Lur, Ph.D.)
What happens in adolescence, doesn't stay in adolescence
JARED M. ROBERTS MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Matthew Sandoval (Advisor: Javier Diaz Alonso, Ph.D.)
Synaptic Do's and Don'ts: How adhesion molecules make meaningful brain connections
Lara Taniguchi (Advisor: Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D.)
Cereal Drama: How Early Life Stress Messes with Reward Circuits
Alina Tu (Advisor: Liz Chrastil, Ph.D.)
The brain's internal GPS: Navigating with map (or getting lost trying)
ROGER W. RUSSELL AWARD IN THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
Hyeijung Yoo (Advisor: Gyorgy Lur, Ph.D.)
Chronic Stress Impairs Sensory Discrimination and Working Memory
RENÉE HARWICK ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Wing Ning (Advisor: Bruce McNaughton, Ph.D.)
Mapping memory: how the brain encodes what and where
RENÉE HARWICK ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Dana Parker (Advisor: Michael Yassa, Ph.D.)
Ghost Signals: Imaging the Brain's Silent Watchers
Rachael Elizabeth Hokenson (Advisor: Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., PhD.)
You're not OVARY-acting: The role of estrogen in traumatic stress
Faculty Awards
James McGaugh, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
For outstanding commitment to applying research findings to improve the human condition
Sara Mednick, Ph.D.
Professor, Cognitive Science
School of Social Sciences
For outstanding dedication to positively impacting the training experience of early career scientists
Katharine Simon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
For outstanding early career contributions to charting new paths in neuroscience
Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Psychological Science
School of Social Ecology
For transformative contributions to the field of learning and memory
Liz Chrastil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
For an outstanding interdisciplinary CNLM research team's innovative and meritorious science that has advanced or is well positioned to advance our fundamental understanding of learning and memory.
Jeffrey Krichmar, Ph.D.
Professor
Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
For an outstanding interdisciplinary CNLM research team's innovative and meritorious science that has advanced or is well-positioned to advance our fundamental understanding of learning and memory.
Douglas Nitz, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Cognitive Sciences
University of California, San Diego
For an outstanding interdisciplinary CNLM research team's innovative and meritorious science that has advanced or is well-positioned to advance our fundamental understanding of learning and memory.
Alumni Award
ENGAGED ALUMNI AWARD
Leila M. Allen, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor
Psychology
Florida International University
For exceptional dedication and continued engagement with the CNLM following the degree completion or training at the Center
The annual awards of the CNLM are possible thanks to the generosity of our wonderful community of supporters including Dr. James McGaugh, Mrs. Janice McGaugh Morrow and Mr. William Morrow, Mrs. Judy Goodrich and the late Dr. James Tait Goodrich, Dr. Renée Harwick, the friends, family and colleagues of Dr. John Haycock, the friends, family and colleagues of Mr. Jared Roberts, the friends, family and colleagues of Dr. Roger Russell, the friends, family and Colleagues of Dr. Norman Weinberger, and the Friends of the CNLM. Thank you for making a difference in the careers of our young scholars.
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