{"id":323,"date":"2019-05-21T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/?p=323"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:37:30","slug":"professor-michael-hasselmo-receives-bus-highest-honor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/2019\/05\/21\/professor-michael-hasselmo-receives-bus-highest-honor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Michael Hasselmo Receives BU’s Highest Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael E. Hasselmo was named a 2019 William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston\u00a0 University.\u00a0<\/span>Named in honor of BU\u2019s first president, the William Fairfield Warren Professorships were established in 2008 to recognize BU\u2019s most distinguished faculty. The award is the highest distinction bestowed upon senior faculty members who remain actively involved in research, scholarship, teaching, and the University\u2019s civic life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Hasselmo is Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Director of the\u00a0Center for Systems Neuroscience\u00a0<\/a>at Boston University.He is also a principal investigator on the\u00a0$7.5 million Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award as well as PI on two National Institutes of Health R01 grants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the nature of memory and brain processes, from systems neuroscience and biochemistry to cognition and behavior. His research focuses on the physiological mechanisms of spatial navigation and memory function; he has explored important elements of the mechanisms of episodic memory, including examination of the mechanism for the coding of space and time in episodic memory by grid cells in the brain. <\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Hasselmo has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, and his book\u00a0<\/span>How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory<\/em>\u00a0was published by MIT Press in 2012. He serves on the editorial boards of\u00a0<\/span>Science, Hippocampus,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Neurobiology of Learning and Memory<\/em>, among others.\u00a0<\/span>Last year, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.\u00a0 He is also\u00a0a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the 2015 Hebb Award from the International Neural Network Society.\u00a0<\/span>He is a member of numerous scientific journal editorial boards, including the board of reviewing editors at Science,<\/em> as well as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy introducing students at BU to theories about the mechanisms of brain function, particularly in my own field of research on memory and goal-directed navigation,\u201d Hasselmo says. \u201cThis is an exciting area with many exciting recent breakthroughs, but also with tremendous opportunities for future contributions. I take pleasure in training students on the available experimental data and theoretical techniques, and also encouraging them to think in terms of their own potential future contributions to the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hasselmo has previously written letters supporting other senior faculty to receive the Warren Professorship, and says he is proud to receive the honor himself. \u201cI have always been interested in the history of academia, and I appreciate the value of the named professorships at universities, so it is marvelous to receive this honor from Boston University,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

(Story adapted from original, written by\u00a0<\/span>Amy Laskowski\u00a0and published in BU Today April 30th, 2019.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael E. Hasselmo was named a 2019 William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston\u00a0 University.\u00a0Named in honor of BU\u2019s first president, the William Fairfield Warren Professorships were established in 2008 to recognize BU\u2019s most distinguished faculty. The award is the highest distinction bestowed upon senior faculty members who remain actively involved in research, scholarship, teaching, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/neuroautonomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}