Travel and Merit Awards
The Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) awards several Travel Awards funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to help cover travel and registration costs for the 2011 Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC) in Annapolis, Maryland. SNL particularly encourages and aims to foster the participation of junior scientists who are members of underrepresented groups as defined by the National Institutes of Health. See http://grants.nih.gov/training/faq_diversity.htm.
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards
Merit Awards were given to the two students submitting the highest ranked abstracts. The SNL 2011
Graduate Student Abstract Merit Awards were given to:
Elisabeth Karuza, The University of Rochester,
NY, US
Hannah Snyder, University of Colorado at
Boulder, US
Post Doctoral Abstract Merit Awards
Merit Awards were given to the two postdocs submitting the highest ranked abstracts. The SNL 2011
Post Doctoral Abstract Merit Awards were given to:
Siyuan Liu, National Institutes of Health,
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Michael Wolmetz, Johns Hopkins University, MD,
US
Travel Awards
Graduate and post-doctoral students who were not first authors on an abstract or who did not submit an abstract to the meeting were eligible to apply for a travel award to attend the 3rd Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference. The awards cover the cost of registration as well as provide $550 toward the cost of travel to the meeting. 12 awards were given.
The SNL 2011 Travel Awards were given to:
Teon Brooks, New York University, US
Brea Chouinard, University of Alberta, Canada
Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, Massachusetts General
Hospital and Harvard Medical School, US
Sarah Grace Hudspeth, University of South
Carolina, US
Nina Hsu, University of Pennsylvania, US
Shinae Kang, University of California, Berkeley,
US
Mikel Lizarazu, Basque Center on Cognition,
Brain and Language (BCBL), Spain
Aya Meltzer-Asscher,
Northwestern University, US
Takenobu Murakami, Goethe-University, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
Tepring Piquado, University of California,
Irvine, US
Rubén Torres, National Autonomous University of
Mexico, Mexico