News & Events
Upcoming Events
HILS Open House #1
October 7, 2026
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5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT
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Zoom
This session will focus on application essays and letters of recommendation. For the first hour, a panel of faculty will answer questions in the main room followed by program-specific breakout sessions for the second hour. Registration link coming soon!
SACNAS Conference
Oct. 29 - Oct 31, 2026
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All day
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Long Beach, CA
Stop by the HILS booth to chat with current students and program reps! Conference information & updates here.
HILS Open House #2
November 12, 2026
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3:00PM - 4:00PM EST
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Zoom
This session will be take the format of a drop-in Q&A. The main room will be open for general questions while program-specific breakout rooms will run concurrently for any programmatic questions. Registration link coming soon!
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Graduate School Fair
Nov. 14 - Nov 17, 2026
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12:00PM - 2:00PM PST
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Washington DC
Stop by the PiN booth 1-3p Saturday, 12-2p Sunday to Tuesday to chat with current faculty, students, and staff! Conference details here.
ABRCMS Conference
Nov. 18 - Nov 21, 2026
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All day
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Seattle, WA
Stop by the HILS booth to chat with current students and program reps! Conference information & updates here.
Latest News
How the Brain Increases Blood Flow on Demand
New findings from co-lead author and PiN alumni, Trevor Krolak '25, could improve understanding of neurodegeneration and interpretation of brain scans. Read more here.
Ya'el Courtney, 2025 Commencement Marshal & Student Speaker
PiN graduate Ya'el Courtney was selected to serve as a Commencement Marshal in Harvard's 374th Commencement and as Student Speaker in the 2025 DMS Hooding Ceremony. Read the GSAS Commencement feature profiling Ya'el here, and watch the DMS Hooding...
'The Goal is to Understand Who You Are'
Studying neuroscience gives Nghia Nguyen insights into ‘technical, tangible’ reasons for the things he does every day. Read the full article here .
Two Neuroscience students among those awarded the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship in Milestone Year
Olumide Fagboyegun (G4, PiN) and Ella Perrault (G3, PiN) were among the 50 graduate students in science and their advisers who were named to the 2024 cohort of the Gilliam Fellows Program by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on July 9. These student...
Hooked on Neuroscience
Three PhD candidates — Winthrop Gillis, Alyssa Larios, and Richard Hakim — discuss what drew them to the discipline What “changed everything” for neuroscience PhD candidate Winthrop Gillis was taking his first biology class as a high school sophomore. “I...
My role is to empower
PiN alum Soyon Hong is a group leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL. Her lab is interested in investigating how multiple cell types work together to maintain brain function, and how these interactions are affected and altered in...
Repairing DNA Damage in Neurons
Researchers discover a mechanism used by neurons to repair damage that occurs during neuronal activity. PiN student Daniel Gilliam is co-first author of paper appearing in Nature. “Use it or lose it” goes the adage, applied liberally to everything from...
2020 PiN Graduate named as GSAS Commencement Marshal
One of our 2020 PiN graduates is among the Commencement marshals chosen to represent the Doctor of Philosophy. Each year, the GSAS Student Council (GSC) chooses its Commencement marshals to represent the School’s graduating class. Marshal nominations are...
PiN Graduate Recipient of the 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Please join us in congratulating Jaeeon Lee, a 2021 graduate from the Program in Neuroscience ( PiN), who has received the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for 2022. For further information, please view the Fred Hutch News Release.
Ya'el Courtney (G3) wins Gilliam fellowship
PiN G3 Ya'el Courtney and her thesis advisor, Maria Lehtinen, are among 50 student-advisor pairs to receive the Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2021 Gilliam Fellowship as part of a program to advance diversity and inclusion in science. You can read more...
