School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Juliet Mwirigi, selected for a Hanna H. Gray Fellowship, will get up to $1.5 million in funding over eight years to explore new scientific territory. [Photo: UT Dallas]

Recent UTD Doctoral Grad Earns Howard Hughes Medical Institute for a Hanna H. Gray Fellowship.

by | Jan 20, 2025

A recent PhD recipient at the University of Texas at Dallas has been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for a Hanna H. Gray Fellowship.

It’s a remarkable achievement for Juliet Mwirigi, a pain specialist who journeyed from Kenya in East Africa to the Tarrant County city of Keller.

A year after earning her doctorate in cognition and neuroscience from the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UTD, Mwirigi was selected by the Hanna H....

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UT Dallas Researchers Get $3.7M NIH Grant To Explore the Aging Brain
by | Nov 5, 2024
UTD psychology professors Karen Rodrigue and Kristen Kennedy will use one of the most powerful imaging machines in existence—the 24-ton 7-Tesla magnetic resonance scanner—to identify the major brain differences between younger and older adults.
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Backed by $1.6M DHA Grant, UT Dallas Neuroscientist Works To Improve Word Retrieval in MS Patients
by | Jan 22, 2024
In 1985, Dr. John Hart Jr. established that the brain stores knowledge by categories. Now his team in the UTD Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of Memory and Language has pinpointed patterns of brain activity that appear crucial for word retrieval.
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The Last Word: OptiMIND Founder on Winning a $40,000 Award for Research Innovation at UTD’s Big Idea Competition
by | May 25, 2023
Associate Professor Chandramallika Basak entered UTD's recent Big Idea Competition in the alumni research commercialization category with OptiMIND, a series of brain training games designed to enhance brain and cognition across the lifespan. The games are designed to ensure that people stay sharp and focused at any age. After winning $40,000 in the competition, she recently tweeted that she's ready to start her startup.
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Ted Price, UT Dallas Ashbel Smith Professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Photo: UT Dallas]

With New Center, UT Dallas Researchers Are Looking into the Molecular Causes of Pain

by | Nov 2, 2022
With a five-year, $11.3 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, researchers at UT Dallas' new Human Nociceptor and Spinal Cord Molecular Signature Center are digging into the causes of chronic pain and new ways to treat it. The center's leader, Dr. Ted Price, says the data generated "will fundamentally change the way that we think about pain and how we develop therapeutics."
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UTD Researchers’ Grant Aimed At Improving Tech for Hearing Impaired
by | Sep 23, 2016
Researchers hope their work will bring cheaper solutions to cut down extraneous noise for those wearing hearing aids.
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