Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Graduate Degree Program


	Helen Wills, a graduate of the Univeristy of California, Berkeley, was a women's tennis great who won eight Wimbledon singles titles in the 1920s and 1930s.She won 31 major titles, including seven U.S. championships and four French titles over her illustrious career.

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The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, was established to integrate neuroscience faculty across the University. The broad goal is to use the power of diverse research approaches to address central questions in neuroscience.

The faculty of the Institute include over 50 researchers with state-of-the-art laboratories from the Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Psychology, Physics, and Integrative Biology in the College of Letters and Sciences; the Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Chemistry, the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management in the College of Natural Resources; the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute; the School of Public Health; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the College of Engineering; and the School of Optometry's Program in Vision Sciences.

The Institute also administers the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Students admitted to the program may work with any affiliated faculty and are fully supported for the duration of their graduate work.

Assistant Professor Diana Bautista is a 2009 McKnight Scholar Award recipient.

Professor Mu-Ming Poo was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Science. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a U.S. scientist or engineer.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Kristin Scott! She has just been designated a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. Each HHMI Early Career Scientist will receive a six-year appointment to the Institute and, along with it, the freedom to explore his or her best ideas without worrying about where to find the money to fund those experiments.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Jose Carmena! He is one of seven UC Berkeley faculty recipients of The Sloan Research Fellowships. Each Sloan fellow receives $50,000 to pursue whatever research he or she chooses for a period of two years.

Professor Yang Dan is one of five UC Berkeley faculty recipients of a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator's Award. Her appointment as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator is one the most sought-after honors in biomedical research and was given for her groundbreaking research elucidating the neural mechanisms of natural vision.

HWNI is pleased to have Katherine Sherwood, Professor of Art Practice at Berkeley, as our artist in residence.

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