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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...
Ya'el Courtney

'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 .
Nghia Nguyen

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...
Winthrop Gillis, Alyssa Larios, and Richard Hakim

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...
Soyon Hong

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...
neurons

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...
Ivan Santiago

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...
Ya'el Courtney

Lynn Yap wins Weintraub award

PiN student Lynn Yap is selected for the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. Read news release here.
Lynn Yap portrait