Brandeis Magazine

Arne Ekstrom, Ph.D.’04, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, won a Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is worth $50,000 over two years. Arne’s research uses live monitoring of the brains of neurosurgery patients to study how we memorize locations and directions. Congratulations to Daniel Finger and his wife, Gwen, who had a baby girl, Abigail Shea, on April 12 in White Plains, N.Y. Abigail is their second child. Gregory Litt is an attorney at Skadden in New York. He represents clients in complex commercial disputes and helps businesses and individuals resolve a wide range of corporate, commercial and securities disputes.