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.

HWNI is pleased to have Katherine Sherwood, Professor of Art Practice at Berkeley, as our artist in residence. Her work evokes powerful images of the brain and art and she currently has a major exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences Rotunda in Washington, D.C.
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