Dr. Thibaud Taileefumier was among the 17 junior facluty selected from across the University to participate in the Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars interdisciplinary mentorship program.

The Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars program augments traditional, within-department faculty mentoring at UT by facilitating 1:1 mentor-mentee pairing across departments, or even across colleges.  This program offers a 1 year scholarship for junior faculty to engage with mentors to work on a range of activities, including proposals for external funding, scholarly

Jamie Palmer, graduate student in the Donegan Lab, was awarded a 2023 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) award from the Society of Neuroscience.  This award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research by providing a stipend to offset the registration and travel costs to attend the 2023 SfN Meeting.  Jamie will present their research at a TPDA poster session on Saturday, November 11 and attend two professional development workshops during the meeting.

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Dr. Alex Huth and colleagues in the department of Computer Science published a research article in Nature Neuroscience entiteld "Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings".

This research produced a non-invasive decoder that reconstructs continuous language from cortical semantic representations recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and revealed the viability of non-invasive language brain–computer interface.

Tang J, LeBel A, Jain S and Huth AG. Semantic reconstruction of continuous