Announcements

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
Help us in congratulating our own PWN member, Kasia Bieszczad. Kasia was recently honored by the APS (Association for Psychological Science) as a Rising Star. You read about it here:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2013/march-13/march-2013-rising-stars.html#bieszczad

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
Congratulations to Dr. Loly Rubio for passing the exams required to become certified by the educational commission of foreign medical graduates (ECFMG). Certification by ECFMG is the standard for evaluating the qualifications of international medical graduates (IMGs) before they enter U.S. graduate medical education, where they provide supervised patient care. Loly is currently interviewing for a psychiatry residency – we wish her the best of luck!

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
Congratulations to Erica Young and Courtney on the publication of their latest scientific findings in the Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations ladies!!! You can read more about their exciting findings here:
MicroRNA-182 Regulates Amygdala-Dependent Memory Formation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23345246

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
Congratulations to Cristin Gavin on defending her PhD thesis. PWN wishes you all the best on all of your future endeavors Dr. Gavin!

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
Congratulations to Rona Graham for her new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke.

Ghazaleh & Courtney
February 14th, 2012

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
We would like to start this week by congratulating Yasmin Mashhoon for receiving an O’Keefe award from McLean Hospital for excellence in imaging

AND

Elham Kashefi for being a co-author on an article that was published in Science and picked up by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16636580

Congratulations Ladies!!!

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)
Dear PWN members,

Happy Holidays! We hope that you are enjoying the season.

Here is to a year filled with laughter, happiness, succes, love, and most importantly great health for you and your families. Happy 2012!

We Look forward to hearing/reading about all your new endeavors and accomplishments in the new year. Please keep us posted.

Our warmest wishes,

Courtney, Loly, and Ghazaleh

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)- Yasmin Mashhoon
Congratulations to Yasmin Mashhoon for her recent promotion to Instructor at Harvard's McClean Hospital!

Ghazaleh & Courtney
November 19, 2011

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)- Loly Rubio
We extend our congratulations to Loly Rubio for receiving the Anuradha Rao Travel Award for SfN. Anuradha Rao was a Senior Editor at Neuron from 2001-2004. Anuradha died unexpectedly shortly after the Society for Neuroscience meeting in October of 2004. In honor of Anuradha’s memory, the Rao family has established the “Anuradha Rao Memorial Travel Award.” Great job Loly!!!

Ghazaleh & Courtney
October 28, 2011

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)- Karen McFarland
Congratulations to Karen McFarland on her new position as Assistant Professor in the department of Neurology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Karen, you will be a wonderful addition to the department. Your new colleagues will benefit from both your expertise as a scientist as well as your enthusiasm for science. MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease will not be the same without you. You will be dearly missed. We wish you all the best for your future endeavors and your new life in Florida. We are so proud.

Ghazaleh & Courtney
May 24, 2010

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN) - Marina Tsiknis
Congratulations to Marina Tsiknis on her promotion to Assistant Director of Operations and Research Administration at Boston College Center for Retirement Research. You are truly an asset to the Retirement Center and your promotion is well deserved given all your hard work in such a demanding and fast paced environment. Here is to all of your future success. We are so proud!

Ghazaleh & Courtney
February 17, 2010

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)- Janine Steiger
Congratulations to Janine Steiger on her promotion to Associate Director of Research at CombinatoRx. Janine, you are truly an asset to your company and your promotion is very well deserved. Your expertise in discovering novel therapeutic compounds for multiple disease models is outstanding, and the ease with which you have switched fields of study is highly commendable. We are very proud and wish you the best for all of your future endeavors.

Ghazaleh & Courtney
May 3, 2010