Brain Sciences Scholarship Award

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