Student Achievements, 2012-2013 Academic Year

Bruce Maki
PhD Student, Neuroscience Program
Advisor: Gabriela Popescu, PhD

Gordon Research Conference Travel Award – Awarded to presenting authors for costs associated with attending the Ion Channels conference at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA.  July 2012.

Faculty of 1000 Recommended Research Article – Awarded to top original research articles of outstanding impact.


Meaghan Paganelli
PhD student, Neuroscience Program
Advisors: Gabriela Popescu, PhD

National Institute of Health F31 Predoctoral Fellowship, July 2012-June 2014.

PhD Poster Award, 2013 UNYPS Annual Meeting.  Paganelli, MA and Popescu, GK.  Molecular Mechanism of Local Anesthetics Inhibition on NMDA Receptors.


Tom Covey
PhD student, Neuroscience Program
Advisors: David Shucard, PhD; Janet Shucard, PhD

Mark Diamond Research Fund Dissertation Grant from the University at Buffalo, July 2012 – December 2013.


Naomi McKay
PhD student, Behavioral Neuroscience (Psychology Deparment)
Advisor: Derek Daniels, PhD

Psychology Department Dissertation Award, 2013

The Bishop Fund Travel Award, University at Buffalo, 2013


Jay Garaycochea
PhD student, Neuroscience Program
Advisor: Malcolm Slaughter, PhD

Mark Diamond Research Fund Dissertation Grant from the University at Buffalo, July 2013 – July 2014.