Congrats to Meike on this incredible accomplishment! The Lindau Meetings bring together Nobel Laureates and outstanding early-career scientists from around the world. Selection for the Young Scientists Program is a highly competitive honor that recognizes exceptional promise and achievement in research.

Congratulations to Dr. Corey Horien, who has been selected to receive an EPSP Pilot Award in support of his research. The award recognizes promising early-stage research and will help advance Corey’s innovative work.

Congratulations to PennLINC alum Dr. Valerie J. Sydnor for receiving the 2026 Karl Zilles Award in Integrative Neuroscience from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). The extremly competitive award recognizes outstanding work by a PhD student or postdoctoral fellow that integrates modern neuroanatomical approaches with multimodal in vivo neuroimaging.

Congratulations to Ted, who has been selected for the 2026 Flux Society Linda Spear Mid-Career Award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by mid-career scientists for contributions to advancing developmental cognitive neuroscience. He will receive the award and give a talk at Flux 2026 in San Diego. 🌟

Congrats Corey!! The ORAP is one of the highest honors that a physician-scientist can receive during residency 🌟 and includes a 2-day trip to the NIH!!

Congratulations to Meike for winning the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society! This is the single most prestigious national award one can receive for their graduate work across all of Germany. Wow!

Congratulations to Steven for being named as a Career Development Institute (CDI) fellow for psychiatry! 🥳 This is a super competitve NIH- funded, multi-year program!

Congratulations to Golia and the RBC Team!! Their poster won one of the First Place Prizes for Best Poster at this year's annual Ai2D retreat!! Woo hoo 🏆

Congratulations to Steven!! The Hartwell Foundation fellowship is an incredibly competitive mechanism with a broad mission to recognize superb post-docs with research that aims to support children 🧒 👧

Congratulations Golia!! This is a highly competitive international prize that comes with a small cash award which Golia won it due of her SUPERB work on the Reproducible Brain Charts 🧠 🌟

Congratulations Meike! This highly-competitive award is given to a small number of exceptionally qualified early-career postdoctoral researchers -- funding their own independent research projects at a host institution in Germany or abroad. She will be returning to PennLINC and diving further into her project "Neurodevelopmental Plasticity as a Window Into Adversity-Related Mental Health Challenges in Youth" as an incoming post-doc in January 2026!

Congratulations to Lucinda for her NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellowship on "Characterizing Links Between Childhood Environment and Cortical Neuroplasticity Across Adolescence" being funded! 🧠

Congratulations to Lizzie for completing her residency training in psychiatry and for winning the Senior Resident Excellence Award! This award acknowledges the best resident of the year at Penn! It is especially impressive that she won this award as a 3rd year resident. Best of luck in your child psychiatry fellowship at CHOP Lizzie!

Arielle won this award for her study Uncovering Person-Specific Neurodevelopmental Markers of Executive Dysfunction and Internalizing Symptoms!

PennLINC alumni Drs. Erica Baller, Sheila Shanmugan, and Arielle Keller successfully renewed their NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Awards! 🎉

Massive congrats to recent PennLINC alum Dr. Valerie Sydnor, who was selected for the Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation in...

Massive congrats to PennLINC post-doc Dr. Arielle Keller!! Her article -- Personalized functional brain network topography is associated...

All-star PennLINC graduate student Valerie Sydnor's 2021 review on the the development of assocation cortex and the...

Former PennLINC post-doc Prof. Jake Vogel received H.M. Queen Silvia's Prize for a young Alzheimer's researcher in a ceremony at the...