🎉 TNP is back! Highlights from our Welcome Back Info Session (Sept 9, 2025): New leadership & committees 🏛️ Welcome to new faculty & students 👋 Congrats grads, RUMBLE Awardees & MPSI Fellows 🏆 PhD credit hours reduced to 60 📚 Inaugural TNP Retreat: Oct 24 🗓️ #WayneState #TNP #Neuroscience

💛 💚 Congratulations to TNPeople Taylor Takla (Ph.D. candidate), Dr. Ana Daugherty (faculty affiliate), and Dr. Nora Fritz (faculty affiliate) on their latest publication in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ms...

Huge congratulations to Dr. John France on his new publication “Trauma from the Eye of the Beholder: Reporter Discordance in Child’s Trauma, Psychopathology, and Neurobiology” in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging! 🎉 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 Welcome to our newest TNP PhD student, Maryam Abbawi! 🌟 We’re thrilled to have Maryam TNP. A fun fact about her: she loves trying new coffee shops and even started a page to share her favorites! ☕✨ We can’t wait to see all the amazing work she’ll do with us—please join us in welcoming Maryam! 💛

Shoutout to our 2025-2026 Rumble Awardees, Christine Lee and Jessica Moser! These competitive awards reflect promise for conducting research and scholarship. #WSU #TNP

🧠 Looking for high-quality graduate training in interdisciplinary, translational neuroscience? Look no further than the Translational Neuroscience Program (TNP) at Wayne State University in the heart of Detroit. Applications now open! Learn more: tnp.wayne.edu Apply: grad school.wayne.edu

🎉 Big congrats to Annie Nguyen, winner of the Corrine F. Resta Endowed Doctoral Award! 🧠🔬 Her $25K project explores how prenatal benzene exposure affects microglia + antiviral neuroimmunity. Huge impact ahead in neuroimmunology—go Annie!

Congrats to Dr. John McClellan France on defending his dissertation! 💚💛🧠 His research studied emotion processing and cognitive control in trauma-exposed teens. Mentored by Drs. Jovanovic, Stanley, Marusak, Ofen, and Daugherty. Best wishes on your postdoc move to Minnesota with Dr. Larsen!

👏 Congrats to Lexi Soltesz (@panza.lab), 2nd-year PhD student, on winning the 2025 DiMarco Award from ASIA! 🧠💤 Her work explores boosting sleep and cognition after spinal cord injury. #Neuroscience #SCI #WomenInSTEM

Join us for Ph.D. candidate John M. France’s public defense! 🧠 He’ll present on trauma, emotion processing & cognitive control in early adolescence — Tues, July 29 (hybrid: in-person + Zoom). Hosted by the Translational Neuroscience Program 💚💛

Samantha Ely has received the $25K Corrine F. Resta Award for her project on endocannabinoids and adolescent suicidal ideation. We're proud to celebrate this impactful work in youth mental health—congrats, Sam! 💙

Join us this coming Tuesday, July 15, at noon, for the Stride for Pride Walk and Lunch on the Wayne State U campus. #Detroit ruthelliscenter.networkforgood.com/projects/253... @waynestatechem.bsky.social @waynestateresearch.bsky.social @waynestateclas.bsky.social @waynestatetnp.bsky.social #pride