University of Oregon Scientist Wins Neuroscience Awards

Helen Neville, who holds the Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair at the University of Oregon, was selected to receive the 2011 Transforming Education Through Neuroscience Award from the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society. The award will be presented at the organization’s conference in Boston this November.

Dr. Neville is also one of three co-winners of the Neuronal Plasticity Prize at the recent International Brain Research Organization’s Word Congress of Neuroscience in Florence, Italy.

Dr. Neville is a graduate of the University of British Columbia. She earned a master’s degree at Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. at Cornell University.