Congratulations to graduate student Julia Jun for being awarded the Provost Diversity Fellowship for Advanced Doctoral Student (link). This competitive Fellowship is meant for dissertation completion.
New Paper in Hippocampus Journal by Dev Subramanian
A new journal article, titled Time cells in the retrosplenial cortex, was published in the Hippocampus journal. See the paper here. Congratulations Dev!
![](https://blogs.cornell.edu/davidsmithlab/files/2024/08/Dev_Subramanian_Hippocampus_Paper_2024_08.jpg)
Congratulations Dev Subramanian on successfully defending his dissertation work!
Dr. Dev Subramanian’s dissertation work on the “Neural Basis of Spatial, Contextual, and Temporal Memory in the Retrosplenial Cortex” was defended successfully. Congratulations Dev on the excellent work!
![](https://blogs.cornell.edu/davidsmithlab/files/2024/07/Dev_Subramanian_Dissertation-768x1024.jpg)
New Hippocampus Paper from graduate student Dev Subramanian
A new journal article, titled A comparison of hippocampal and retrosplenial cortical spatial and contextual firing patterns, was published in Hippocampus Journal. See the paper here. Congratulations Dev!
![New paper cover.](https://blogs.cornell.edu/davidsmithlab/files/2024/05/Dev_Subramanian_Hippocampus_Paper.jpg)
Congratulations to Jiarui (Ray) Fang on the successful completion of honors project, thesis, and poster presentation.
He will graduate with very well-deserved honors titled “An Investigation into Anterior Olfactory Nucleus Neuronal Activity During Learning of a Complex Context Dependent Odor Memory Task”. Ray will continue his studies as a PhD student at Boston University in the Dr. Michael Hasselmo lab. Ray was also the recipient of the Robert R. Capranica Award is for an outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in neuroethology, link for more information on the award.
![Jiarui (Ray) Fang giving a poster presentation.](https://blogs.cornell.edu/davidsmithlab/files/2024/05/Ray_Poster_2024-768x1024.jpg)
Congratulations to Shiping (Emily) Li for successfully delivering her 2nd year graduate talk.
Shiping’s talk was on “The Functions of the Retrosplenial Cortex”.
Congratulations to Wendy Yang for an excellent 4th year graduate talk.
Wendy’s talk was on “The Role of the Anterior Thalamus in Spatial Learning and Memory”.
Julia (Dahae) Jun awarded the KASF Northeastern Regional Chapter Scholarship
Graduate student Julia (Dahae) Jun was a recipient of the the 2023 Korean American Scholarship Foundation (KASF) Northeastern Regional Chapter Scholarship. Congratulations!
More information on the award can be found here: https://www.kasf.org/2023-nerc-scholarship-recipients/.
Congratulations to Post-Doctoral Fellow Wen-Yi Wu on New Academic Position
Post-Doctoral Fellow Wen-Yi Wu recently accepted an Assistant Professor position in the School of Medicine at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. Congratulations Wen-Yi!
Lilyanna Gross awarded the Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Fellowship at NIH
Undergraduate researcher Lilyanna Gross will work under the mentorship of Dr. Patti Brennan in Advanced Visualization Branch. She will use interactive VR environments to investigate what types of challenges people with chronic medical conditions might face in carrying out their instrumental activities of daily living. This research aims to help deepen the available knowledge for other researchers and apply it to improve daily living for people with chronic medical conditions. Congratulations Lilyanna!
Link for more information on the program.