Institute News
Undergraduate Research Award Recipients 2024-2025
Meet the 2023-2024 recipients of the IBACS Undergraduate Research Awards.
[Read More]IBACS End-of-Year Event 5/7/25
*** Details will be shared here as plans are finalized *** Registration is now open for the 2025 Institute for the Brain & Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) End-Of-Year Event on Wednesday, May 7th from 9am-1:30pm. The deadline to register and sign-up for a poster is Friday, April 25th. This celebration of the 10th anniversary of IBACS will be in-person in the […]
[Read More]Call for nominations: The Phillip P. Smith Award in Cognitive Science
Call for nominations: The Phillip P. Smith Award in Cognitive Science: Recognizing Vision and Innovation in the Study of Mind and Body Phil Smith was a urologist at UConn Health during the earliest days of IBACS – his curiosity and vision led him to ask in what ways cognitive science might inform the relationship between […]
[Read More]IBACS Spring 2025 Seed Grant Applications Due 4/1
The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) spring 2025 seed grant application is now open. Seed Grants provide funding to eligible affiliates for interdisciplinary projects and research initiatives consistent with the IBACS mission. Successful applications typically involve collaborations that require expertise across laboratories and traditional disciplinary boundaries. IBACS prioritizes projects that will provide pilot data in support of […]
[Read More]LangFest 2025 – Save the Date!
We are excited to announce that Language Fest 2025 will be held on the late afternoon and early evening of Wednesday, April 16th in Konover Auditorium (spoken program) and Bousfield Psychology Building Atrium (poster sessions). Language Fest is a university-wide research conference that welcomes the full cross-disciplinary community of language researchers at UConn for a day of sharing results, […]
[Read More]Welcome Back IBACS Affiliates – Important Spring Reminders
IBACS is pleased to welcome our affiliates back to the Spring 2025 semester! If you haven’t already, please save the date for our annual event on Wednesday, May 7th. Details to come. Please find below some very important Spring 2025 reminders about our services: DEI Survey Reminder: Members of the IBACS DEI Committee would like to hear from you! Please […]
[Read More]IBRAiN Research Assistantship Application Now Open!
The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) is inviting graduate students to apply for the IBACS-BIRC Research Assistantships in Neuroimaging (IBRAiN) Program. These graduate assistantships are for 10 hours per week during the Fall (2025) and Spring (2026) semesters at the Brain Imaging Research Center Core (BIRC). During the first year, assistants will be […]
[Read More]Graduate Course Announcements
The University will offer several relevant graduate courses on the Storrs campus in psychological sciences,; philosophy; and speech, language, and hearing sciences.
[Read More]Seed Grant Recipients 2024-2025
The Institute awarded seed grants to affiliated faculty in linguistics, physiology and neurobiology, psychological sciences, and statistics.
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