2024
April
Congratulations to Miriam Ortega for being awarded and selected for the Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program!
March
Congratulations to Miriam Ortega for being awarded the NSF GRFP!
2023
September
Congratulations to Juan Luis Romero Sosa for being awarded the NIH NRSA (F31)!
June
Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Aguirre for final defense of her Ph.D.!
Congratulations to Juan Luis Romero Sosa for passing his prelims with flying colors and Advancing to Candidacy! Officially a Ph.D. Candidate!
March
Congratulations to lab alumnus Dr. Evan Hart who accepted a faculty position at University of Maryland, College Park, starting in August 2024!
January
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Valeria Gonzalez who accepted a behavioral neuroscience faculty position at Reed College, starting in August 2024!
2022
September
Welcome to visiting Ph.D. Candidate Diego Lievano Parra, staying with us until March from the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia!
Congratulations to Zeena Rivera for passing their prelims with flying colors and Advancing to Candidacy! Officially a Ph.D. Candidate!
Welcome to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Preetham Ganupuru joining the lab this month!
July
Congratulations to Zeena Rivera for being selected as HHMI Gilliam Fellow! Gilliam Fellows are awarded to graduate students conducting outstanding research in their respective fields and who are committed to building a more inclusive scientific ecosystem.
May
Congratulations to Juan Luis Romero Sosa for being selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience! The Neuroscience Scholars Program is a competitive two-year training program in career development.
Congratulations to Kaela Evans for being selected for the 2022 Summer Whitcome Fellowship Award! This fellowship is awarded in recognition of her neuroscience undergraduate academic record and promise in research.
April
Congratulations to Juan Luis Romero Sosa for being awarded and selected for the Graduate Research Mentorship Program! The award includes student fees and a stipend.
Congratulations to Dr. Valeria Gonzalez for receiving the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship! The purpose of the fellowship program, which is part of the UCLA Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Infrastructure Initiative and administered by the Chicano Studies Research Center, is to advance excellence through a commitment to diversity, mentorship, and scholarly research that addresses LatinX life and the LatinX experience.
Congratulations to Claudia Aguirre for receiving the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award! Only four exceptional graduate students are chosen each year to receive this prestigious award. The fellowship recognizes graduate students who have achieved distinction through outstanding scholarship, teaching, and University citizenship.
March
Congratulations to Claudia Aguirre for being selected for the enhanced Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute (eIRTI)! eIRTI promotes the career development of pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and early career scientists interested in conducting research on substance abuse, especially as it affects Hispanics.
2021
September
Congratulations to Claudia Aguirre for passing her prelims with flying colors and Advancing to Candidacy! Officially a Ph.D. Candidate!
May
Welcome to NSIDP student Zeena Rivera for officially joining the lab!
2020
September
Congrats to Dr. Alexandra Stolyarova for final defense of her Ph.D.!
May
Congrats to alum Dr. Evan Hart for being selected for the NIH Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRAT) fellowship!
Congrats Claudia Aguirre for being selected for both the Nancy Biram Fellowship and the Atamdede Fellowship! These are endowed summer fellowships based on research on addictions and submission of a paper, respectively!
April
Congrats Juan Luis Romero Sosa for being selected for the T32 (TNDA, Translational Neuroscience of Drug Abuse) Fellowship!
2019
October
Hooray Claudia Aguirre for conquering the BNS C-Exams!
May/June
Congrats Sriya Kolli for being selected for the Whitcome Fellowship!
Congrats Alexandra Stolyarova for being selected for the Dissertation Year Fellowship!
Congrats Claudia Aguirre for being selected for the Graduate Summer Research Fellowship!
April
Congrats Alexandra Stolyarova for being selected as a fellow of the Collegium of University Teaching Fellows!
Way to go Claudia Aguirre on her 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March
Big congratulations to Dr. Evan Hart for brilliantly defending his Doctoral Dissertation on March 11th! Evan will soon leave for a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Geoffrey Schoenbaum at NIDA.
Welcome Juan Luis Romero Sosa to the Izquierdo Lab! He will join us in the Fall as a 1st year BNS Ph.D. student!
Welcome to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Tony Ye who will be joining us in August!