Celebrating NPNL Accomplishments!

May 7, 2018

We can’t believe it’s already the end of the spring semester, and another great academic year. We haven’t been great about updating our website this year (but do update our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram sometimes so be sure to check those out 😊), but we have so many exciting things to celebrate!

Congratulations to our wonderful NPNL lab members for not only being awesome, kind, brilliant, and hard working, but also for the following accomplishments:

- Julia: Awarded the USC Rose Hills PhD Fellowship; 1st Place at the American Heart Association Hackathon; NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
- Octavio: Received the USC-CONACyT PhD fellowship
- Kaori (Lily): Received 2nd place poster in OS/OT at the School of Dentistry Research Day; was accepted to Neurohackademy 2018; was selected for an oral presentation at the OT Summit 2018
- David S: Received a USC OS/OT Division AOTA travel award and OTAC student leadership award, the Tony Memorial Scholarship, a Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholarship, and the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
- Allie: Received a USC OS/OT Division AOTA travel award and OTAC student leadership award, completed her Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, was endorsed by USC for the Marshall Scholarship, and was accepted to the USC OTD program with a residency at Keck
- Jennifer: Had her Critically Appraised Paper accepted for online publication in AOTA’s Evidence Exchange and was accepted to the USC OTD program with a residency at Keck

We also had over 100 downloads on our ATLAS dataset in less than 3 months of the paper coming out, David K did some great testing and showed great results with our REINVENT system, we got lots of exciting papers accepted and submitted for review and some nice grants and press, ran over 100 participants across our various studies (including our most intricate one yet with TMS followed by tDCS/fMRI run by Stephanie), welcomed (and will be welcoming) some exciting new lab members and collaborators, including our newest MS in Computer Science Student Amit, who has been helping with our big data neuroimaging projects, and had a fun time doing an online statistical learning class with our friends in Dr. James Finley’s lab! It’s been a great year, and we are so thankful to everyone for their hard work and fun attitudes!