Land 0' Lakes pledges $2.5 million to establish the endowed Land O' Lakes Chair in Marketing at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; a position to be held by Professor of Excellence in Marketing Kathleen Vohs, a 2000 Psychology and Brain Science PhD graduate....

Alessandro Pizzo has been named a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow. The program is designed to provide neuroscience doctoral trainees with career development and networking opportunities to promote their future success.

Dartmouth researchers demonstrate in a new study that a previously understudied part of the brain, the retrosplenial cortex, is essential for forming the basis for contextual memories, which help you to recall events ranging from global disasters to where you parked your car.

Dr. Travis Todd, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor David Bucci’s laboratory, has received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health entitled “Cortico-hippocampal Contributions to Context and Extinction Learning.”...

Professor Jon Freeman, left, discusses the ramifications of the MouseTracker study with Postdoctoral Researcher Eric Hehman, lead author on the report. A depiction of the software in action is seen on the monitor in the center of the photo. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Kyle Smith, whose lab was awarded 3-year Whitehall Foundation Research Grant.

Congratulations Max Mehlman, one of the winners of the 2014 Graduate Student Poster Awards!

Peter Tse ’84, professor of psychological and brain sciences, is among 178 scholars, artists, and scientists in the United States and Canada awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2014.

Jon Freeman, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, is featured on Pacific Standard’s list of the 30 “top thinkers” under the age of 30.

Professor Peter Tse ’84 has won two PROSE awards from the American Association of Publishers for his 2013 book, The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation.