Member Award and Career Updates

Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award Finalists

Ca -dependent and Ca -independent signaling pathways are associated with cardiac hypertrophy. How these two pathways crosstalk with each other resulting in cardiac hypertrophy is poorly understood. To address this issue we designed a transfection bioassay to monitor NFAT activation in cultured rat neonatal cardiomyocytes. We determined that active MEKK3 was capable of stimulating calcineurin(Cn...

The 2013 virtual reality career award

Majoring in mathematics, Larry Rosenblum received his BA from Queens College (CUNY) and his MS and PhD (in number theory) from The Ohio State University. Since 2005 he has been Program Director for Graphics and Visualization at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). From 1994 to 2005 he was Director of the Virtual Reality Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). For two year...

Allison Bishop Wins NSF CAREER Award Allison

The flip side of the data revolution is that massive data has rendered many standard algorithms computationally expensive, necessitating a wholesale rethinking of even the most basic computational methods. To take one example: Nearest neighbors search, the classic method since the 70s for finding similarity among objects, is straightforward for small data sets: compare every object to every oth...

Early Career Award (My Research Program)

EARLY CAREER AWARD Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences

One of life’s great challenges is successfully regulating emotions. Do some emotion regulation strategies have more to recommend them than others? According to Gross’s ~1998, Review of General Psychology, 2, 271–299! process model of emotion regulation, strategies that act early in the emotion-generative process should have a different profile of consequences than strategies that act later on. ...