IBACS Summer Graduate Fellowships provide three months of research funding to graduate students working on topics with relevance to the brain and cognitive sciences.
2026 Fellowship Recipients
Ethan Beri, Psychological Sciences
Title of Proposed Research: Evaluating Dyadic Interactions as Predictors of Observational Learning Success in Rats
Arinjoy Bhattacharjee, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Title of Proposed Research: Effort Allocation and Feedback Processing in Preschool Children with DLD: Evidence from Pupillometry
Marcus Harris, Educational Psychology
Title of Proposed Research: AI Assisted Tools for Reproducible Cognitive Neuroscience Research
Maria Jaakson, Nursing
Title of Proposed Research:Developing new treatments for Opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH)
Siqi Liang, Psychological Sciences
Title of Proposed Research: Understanding the Effects of Early Environmental Factors on the Development of EEG Alpha Rhythms in Infancy
Sorour Sarihi, Nutritional Sciences
Title of Proposed Research: Food Matrix–Driven Fucoxanthin Modulation of the Microbiome–Gut–Brain Axis and Cognitive Resilience
Zeinab Tajik Mansouri, Biomedical Engineering
Title of Proposed Research: Computational Methods for Calcium Imaging and Neural Decoding
Finian Zakas, Psychological Sciences
Title of Proposed Research: Cannabidiol Modulation of Associative Learning to Reduce Cue-Induced Substance Use Behaviors in Young Adults