Graduate student Elizabeth Tilden was awarded a prestigious fellowship at the National Institute on Aging, a part of the National Institute of Health (NIH), for her research investigating how aging and sleep affect cognitive ability. 

The Psychology Department at Washington University, in an attempt to better reflect the work done by both students and faculty within the department, has changed its official name to the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Students hoping to get a closer look within their own heads may have the opportunity to do so. Treasury voted 9-5-0 Tuesday evening to provide Synapse $7,500 to bring to campus a large inflatable brain that students can walk through.

A consortium of nine institutions, led by Washington University School of Medicine and University of Minnesota Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, has received a $30 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the Human Connectome Project.
The Project is a 5-year study that officially began last month and is aimed at learning an enormous amount about the wiring of the healthy human brain.