2010 Jan-Feb - Jejoong and his family returned to Korea in early February. Jejoong is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at Seoul National University in Randolph Blake's lab. - Crystal visited briefly after returning from Namibia. She will be working as a research assistant in Michael Green's lab at UCLA for a while. - Sung Won is returning to Korea in mid February to become an assistant professor at University of Daejeon in Korea. Congratulations ! - Jutta Mayer received the postdoctoral research award from the Kennedy Center Annual Science Day. Mar-Apr - Joe Kim received a NSF EAPSI fellowship to conduct research at Yonsei University in Seoul. 2009 Jan-Feb - Crystal returned from Namibia for a brief visit and left with lots of peanut butter and vegetable seeds. - Jutta Mayer gave clinical and psychiatric neuroimaging talks. - Aaron Albritton joined our lab to work on the DBS study. - Natasha, Katy, Katie, Amanda and Kate presented posters at the Kennedy Center science day. Natasha won the postdoc prize for the second year in a row! - Dr. Mirihae Kim and Erin returned to Seoul after one year at Vanderbilt. We will miss you! - Jejoong, Hyunjoo and Shia came for a few days from Boston. Shia is walking now. Mar-Apr - Randy came for a flying visit to make sure the cannabis study is really, truly finished. - Professor Brendan Maher passed away on St Patrick's Day at home in Durham NC, surrounded by his family. He was 84. During his brilliant career he trained and guided generations of psychologists. His theories of thought processes and delusion formation and laterality in schizophrenia continue to frame how we study them. He was also a wonderfully gifted storyteller and writer. His memoir "A Passage to Sword Beach" is a compelling and addictive reading. It describes his life as a minesweeper for the Royal Navy during the Second World War leading up to the D-Day landing at the Sword Beach and ends with his recovery from the mine explosion that nearly cost his life. For the rest of his life, he remained a mine-sweeping intellectual who infused those around him with optimism, strength and a sense of adventure. We will all miss him very much. - Sohee, Natasha, Katy, Katie and Amanda went to San Diego for the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research to present their exciting new findings. We met up with Junghee, Jejoong, Hyunjoo and Shia, as well as our favorite Venetian-Oxford buddy, Steve Chance. - Jejoong and Junghee received the prestigious Young Investigator Award at the conference. Congratulations! - The Delusions workshop ("Accentuate the Positive" : Park, David, Van Os, Langdon and Heckers) at the ICSOR was packed even though it was held at dinner time. A report of the workshop is available from here. - Tara McMichael and Tom Benson had a beautiful baby girl, Isabella. - Natasha gave the final clinical talk of the year on her visuospatial imagery studies. May-June - Katie Collins successfully defended her honors thesis. - Junghee visited to make sure Elyse continues to paint random rooms. - Katie, Brittany, Matt and Jessica graduated with flying colors. Katie moves on to Vanderbilt Medical School in the fall. Brittany will get married in June and later in the summer, move to Chile for a year before starting medical school at George Washington University. Matt will start graduate school at Peabody and Jessica will start her graduate studies in Social Work in the fall. Congratulations ! - The Social Event of the Year: Duje and Molly's wedding celebration on May 16th. July-August - Heath Nichols, Nick Dunbar and Aaron Albritton were the recipients of the ARRA summer research studentships. - Jejoong and his family moved back to Nashville. - Jutta Mayer, Joe Kim and Joel Peterman arrived in Nashville just in time to savor the unbelievable humidity and heat. September-December - We welcome new undergraduate students ( Lindsey, Rachel, Rachael, Kathleen, Michael) and Dr. Sung Won Choi. - Brad Folley is now an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt |