School of Arts and Sciences

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for "Power and the People: Lay People’s Voices in Ancient Jewish Adjudication"

U.S. Department of Energy 2023 Early Career Research Award

Pew Scholar in Biomedical Science

NIH Grant, Unraveling the Synaptic and Circuit Mechanisms Underlying a Plasticity-Driving Instructive Signal

SUNY Albany, Presynaptic Modulation of Synaptic Inhibition onto Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons

American Academy of Arts and Sciences inductee

Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship for Higher-order statistics of geostrophic turbulence and internal waves

2023 National Medal of Science

2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

NIH Grants, Neuromodulation and Robustness of Neurons and Networks; Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience and Data Analysis (Co-Investigator, Paul Miller)

Grant from WGBH for The American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Infrastructure and Outreach

NSF Grants for:

• EAGER: Integrating Dense Paraphrased-Enriched Representations with Large Language Models
• Elements: Towards a Robust Cyberinfrastructure for NLP-based Search and Discoverability over Scientific Literature (with Nancy Ide and Marcus Verhagen)

American Cancer Society Grant for Deciphering the Role of HP1 Associated Chromatin Complexes in Epigenetic Inheritance

NIH Grant, Capturing the Dynamic Epigenome Using Single Molecule and Single Cell Approaches

NSF Grant, URoL: Epigenetics 2: Robustness and Adaptability of the Dynamic Epigenome: A Multiscale Approach

Brookhaven National Laboratory Grant for U.S. ATLAS HL-LHC Upgrade Project for FY23, WBS 6.11.02.02 Strip Installation & Integration

U.S. Department of Energy, Co-Investigator Aram Apyan, Experimental Particle Physics Research at Brandeis University

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants

"The National Institutes of Health is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. In fiscal year 2022, NIH invested most of its $45 billion appropriations in research seeking to enhance life, and to reduce illness and disability. NIH-funded research has led to breakthroughs and new treatments helping people live longer, healthier lives, and building the research foundation that drives discovery." — NIH Website

• Anne Berry (Psychology), Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Resilience to Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology
• Leslie Griffith (Biology), Activity-Dependent Regulation of CaMKII and Synaptic Plasticity
• James Haber (Biology), DNA Damage Response and Repair of Broken Chromosome
• Lizbeth Hedstrom (Biology and Chemistry) and Isaac Krauss (Chemistry), Ubiquitin-Independent Targeted Protein Degradation (Transformative Research)
• Shantanu Jadhav (Psychology), Role of Physiological Patterns in Hippocampal-Prefrontal Interactions; Hippocampal-Gustatory Cortical Interactions Underlying Formation of Taste-space Cognitive Maps (with Donald Katz)
• Sebastian Kadener (Biology), Uncovering the Origin and Mechanisms of Ultradian Rhythms in the Drosophila Brain and Systematic and Mechanistic Assessment of the Roles of circRNAs in Alzheimer's Disease
• Julia Kardon (Biochemistry), Dynamic Control of Mitochondrial Function by the Protein unfoldase CLPX
• Donald Katz (Psychology), Hippocampal-Gustatory Cortical Interactions Underlying Formation of Taste-space Cognitive Maps (with Shantanu Jadhav)
• Isaac Krauss (Chemistry), A 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer and Mannosidase-Stabilized Glycan Immunogens for Elicitation of High Mannose Patch Antibodies and for Technologies for Directed Evolution of Glycoaptamers
• Michael Marr (Biology), Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience and Data Analysis
• Paul Miller (Biology),  Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience and Data Analysis
• Michael Rosbash (Biology and Neuroscience), Addressing Protein Synthesis Regulation within Small Numbers of Discrete Neurons
• Maria-Eirini Pandelia (Biochemistry), How Does a Metallocofactor In The Hepatitis B Viral Protein X Orchestrate Pathogenesis and Liver Cancer
• Avital Rodal (Biology), Abberior 3D-STED Microscope for Super-Resolution Imaging
• Piali Sengupta (Biology), Mechanisms of Sensory Neuron Morphological Diversification, Signaling, and Functional Plasticity
• Jonathan Touboul (Mathematics), Collaborative Research: DMS/NIGMS 2: Dynamical Maintenance of Left-right Symmetry During Vertebrate Development
• Yangyang Wang (Mathematics), CRCNS: Evidence-based Modeling of Neuromodulatory Action on Network Properties

National Science Foundation (NSF)

"The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories...We also support solutions-oriented research with the potential to produce advancements for the American people." — NSF Website

• Angela Gutchess (Psychology), Defining Culture in Scientific Inquiry: Interdisciplinary and International Perspective
• Michael Hagan (Physics), Computational modeling to determine strategies to optimize self-limited assembly; Collaborative Research: DMREF: Synthetic Machines from Feedback-controlled Active Matter
• Pengyu Hong (Computer Science), Collaborative Research: Cultivating Tomorrow's Innovators Through Exploring Planetary Images with Artificial Intelligence
• Tyler Maunu (Mathematics), Wasserstein Optimization in Data Science: Recovery and Sampling

U.S. Department of Energy

Aram Apyan (Physics), Co-Investigator Gabriella Sciolla, Experimental Particle Physics Research at Brandeis University

Whiting Foundation Fellowship of Higher Education for "Sustainable Transportation and Active Travel in South Korea"

• John Templeton Foundation, grant for Mainstreaming Spiritual Care in Healthcare Organizations: Supporting the Next Generation of Leaders
• U.S. Department of Justice, grant for Chapel Customer Service Survey
• Fetzer Institute, grant for Mapping Spiritual Entrepreneurs

American Council on Learned Societies Fellowship for "America’s Comfort Women: Legacies of Military Prostitution in Cold War Asia and the Pacific"

Hitz Foundation Grant for "Archaeological Research and Conservation in the Usumacinta River Valley of Chiapas and Guatemala"