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Anh Tran, a senior psychology and neuroscience student at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, has been selected to the 2009 USA Today All-USA College Academic Team, as announced today by the national publication.

Tran serves on the Dean's Scholars Program, the College of Biological Sciences Student Board and the Fairview Volunteer Advisory Committee.  She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the UK at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She will be conducting diabetes research and obtaining a Masters of Research.  This is just the latest in a long list of awards.

Additionally, Tran founded the first-ever chapter of Biology Without Borders. The organization is akin to Doctors Without Borders, providing students the opportunity to broaden their international perspectives. Tran intends to use the USA Today award of $2500 to cover some of the costs associated with nationalizing the Biology Without Borders organization.

For more about Anh Tran, read "Ambition without borders."

Glenn Giesler has been written up in Time based on a paper published in Nature Neuroscience.

Janet Dubinsky is mentioned in a March ninth article of the Pioneer Press. The article entitled "Inner workings of brain captivate teen" deals with a Woodbury High School junior, Amy Sun, after winning the state Brain Bee Championship.

Paul Letourneau recently published a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience on the failure of inhibition of protein synthesis to affect growth cone guidance. It is listed among the 50 most read papers at the Journal website and has been already selected as a "Must Read" on the Faculty of 1000 website.

Dr. Apostolos P. Georgopoulos has been awarded the 2009 Neuronal Plasticity Prize of the Fondation IPSEN for his outstanding contribution to findings in the "Brain - Machine interaction" domain. Dr. Georgopoulos will be sharing the 60 000 € prize with Alim Louis Benabid (Grenoble) and Miguel Nicolelis (Duke). The prize will be officially awarded at the Société des Neurosciences Françaises meeting in Bordeaux on May 27.

Eric Newman is a co-investigator on an international collaborative $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation in Paris, France. Led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University College, London, the six-member team is examining how blood flow is changed in different disease states. Understanding the mechanisms of alterations in blood flow may prove critical in developing new treatments for disorders such as stroke.

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