The Brain Sciences Scholarship was created in 1997 to recognize the outstanding academic achievements of students, involved in brain research, at the University of Minnesota and Brain Sciences Center. The award was created by the American Legion family^aEURTMs Brain Science Foundation, who presents it, each year, to aide in the educational pursuits of these exceptional students.
American Legion Brain Sciences Scholarship Award recipients
2017 - Jasmine Joseph & Matt Green
2016 - Marc Pisansky & Jennifer Zick
2015 - Rachel Johnson & Adele DeNicola
2014 - Scott Warren & Fatou Amar
2013 - Sofia Sakellaridi & Roger Dumas
2012 - Margaret Mahan & Rachael Blackman
2011 - Nicole Scott & Michael Powell
2010 - Tiffany Schmidt & Nancy Day
2009 - Aurelio Alonso & Vasileios Christopoulos
2008 - Michelle Arnhold & Adam Johnson
2007 - Marissa Boulware & Nathan Jackson
2006 - Erin Larson & Jadin Jackson
2005 - Murray Blackmore & Amy Naleid
American Legion Brain Sciences Lectures
2017 - Timothy Ebner, MD, PhD, Pickworth Chair in Neuroscience, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota "The Cerebellum in Health and Disease"
2016 - Robert F. Miller, MD, PhD, 3M Bert Cross Professor of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota "How close are we to a cure for schizophrenia?"
2015 - K~Acmil U"A"Yurbil, McKnight Presidential Chair in Radiology, Neurosciences, and Medicine; Professor of Radiology, University of Minnesota; Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR). "Harnessing nuclear spins and magnetic fields towards understanding the Human Brain: A marriage between Physics and Neuroscience"
2014 - Richard A. Andersen, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology "Parietal Cortex In Action"
2013 - Harvey Karten, UCSD "Cells, Circuits and Genes: Evolutionary Origins Of Mammalian Neocortex"
2012 - Suzanne Corkin, MIT "Making History with H. M."
2011 - Michael Petrides, McGill University "Lateral Prefrontal and Parietal Contributions to Working Memory: Monitoring vs. Manipulation"
2010 - Andy Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh "The Power of Neural Populations"
2009 - Mahlon DeLong, Emory University School of Medicine "Circuits & circuit disorders of the basal ganglia: surgical repair"
2008 - Ann Graybiel, MIT 'Our Habitual lives: How Our Brain Makes and Breaks Habits'
2007 - Serge Rossignol, University of Montreal "Locomotor Adaptation After Lesions of the Nervous System."
2003 - Pablo Rudomin PhD, IPN, Mexico City
2002 - Robert Wurtz PhD, National Eye Institute
2001 - Patricia Goldman-Rakic PhD, Yale University
2000 - Gerald M. Edelman MD PhD, Neurosciences Institute
1999 - Joseph T. Coyle MD, Harvard Medical School
1998 - Solomon H. Snyder MD, Johns Hopkins University
1997 - Floyd E. Bloom MD, Scripps Institute
1996 - Eric R. Kandel MD, Columbia University
1995 - Vernon B. Mountcastle MD, Johns Hopkins University