Work with Christiane Linster and Thomas Cleland of the Computational Physiology Laboratory was recently featured in a Cornell Research article. The collaboration is exploring how physical and behavioral situations influence contextually dependent olfactory decision-making tasks. Read the full article here: Cornell Research – Smell and Situation, Entangled in Our Brains.
Year: 2021
Ben Lederman awarded Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Undergraduate student Ben Lederman was awarded a 2021 Summer Experience Grant to conduct research in the David Smith lab this summer.
For more information on this award, see:
https://as.cornell.edu/careers/summer-experience-grant-funding#about-summer-experience-grants-
Sabrina Giaimo and Alexandra Hodder awarded Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Undergraduate students Sabrina Giaimo and Alexandra Hodder were awarded the 2021 Halpern and Rosevear Undergraduate Summer Research Award to conduct research in the David Smith lab this summer. The funding for this award is generously provided by the Halpern and Rosevear families.
More information on the award may be found here: https://psychology.cornell.edu/department-awards-undergraduates
David Smith awarded the Sze / Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize
David Smith was honored with the Morgan Chia-Wen Sze and Bobbi Josephine Hernandez Distinguished Teaching Prize. The prize recognizes Cornell professorial faculty for excellence in teaching from the following disciplines: humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences and mathematics.
More information on the award can be found here: https://as.cornell.edu/about/sze-hernandez-teaching-prize
Cleo He presented research at Cornell Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium
Zichen (Cleo) He presented a poster titled “Different Mechanisms of Context Encoding in the Hippocampus and Retrosplenial Cortex” at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB) 2021 Spring Symposium. Cleo has been working with graduate student Dev Subramanian to better understand the different mechanisms to encode contextual information in two interconnected brain regions. They have been using computational methods to analyze the various neuron firing patterns to understand the advantages of different coding scheme.
More information can be found at the Cornell 2021 Spring Symposium website: https://www.cornellcurb.com/spring-symposium
