News and Updates

June 2021

• HHMI Gilliam fellowship
• Hulu i29 ‘Your Attention Please’ film project (airing July 29th)
• GWIS Fellowship
• Panelist for Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology LISTEN session

May 2021

• Took time off to rest, facilitate community events and hang out with friends and it was lovely.

April 2021

• SBN Welcome Initiative Award
• Wendy Helmer Award, UMass Amherst
• OSSD Travel Award
• OSSD Poster Presentation: Effects of aromatase inhibition on hippocampal gene expression in the common marmoset.

March 2021

• Ford Foundation Fellowship
• First co-author manuscript accepted during my time in the lab.
• CCAD Article on racial underrepresentation in STEM
• Panelist for an event serving Black undergraduate students in CNS

February 2021

• I brushed my teeth every single day please clap
• Letrozole RNAseq study complete!
• MUSE officially a 501c3 nonprofit!

January 2021

• First, first author paper published on hindbrain oxytocin receptors mediating weight loss in diet induced obese rodents . https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33470901/

December 2020

• UMass Predissertation Award

November 2020

• Lead international journal club / webinar at Neuroscience Next through the ISTAART Journal Club and Alzheimer’s and Dementia joined by the author of the paper, Dr. Bi; Nov 9th
• Nominated for HHMI Gilliam Award
• Panel for Transfer Students within the College of Natural Sciences

October 2020

• Marmoset Conference Poster Presentation “Aromatase inhibition of aromatase and estrogen receptors in the marmoset hippocampus”, Oct 21
• Invited Speaker UCSD DASL Symposium October 29th
• ISTAART Panelist for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
• Short piece in Cell Press on the importance of mentorship in STEM
• Women in Neuroscience Panel

August 2020

• #BlackinNeuro Panelist – Mentorship & Outreach
• Spaulding-Smith Panelist for 1st Year Graduate Students
• NSB Panelist for Incoming Graduate Students

June 2020

• Selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) Associate through the Society for Neuroscience.

May 2020

• Early Career Award! Very honored to be nominated by such inspiring and supportive peers and my advisor.

April 2020

• CRF Travel Award Recipient
• CRF Grant Writing Program Acceptance

March 2020

• NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

February 2020

• I got rejected from almost everything I applied for! 🙂 Nice to share the failures too when so often we only see others successes
• Data Blitz Speaker – NEURON

November 2019

• Launched M.U.S.E. Mentorship website

September 2019

• Co-presenter at CNS Symposium

August 2019

• Spaulding-Smith Fellowship recipient
• On Ramp Program – UMass Amherst