Award Year Awardee Award Description
2019 Dr. Marcelo Wood American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
2019 Dr. Michael Leon Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching
2019 Dr. Andrea Nicholas Dr. Degallow Professor of the Year
Effective 3/1/18 Dr. Leslie Thompson Chancellor’s Professor Appointment
2018 Dr. Vivek Swarup New Investigator Award in Alzheimer’s Disease by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
2018 Dr. Stephen Mahler 2018-19 Hellman Fellowship Award
2018 Dr. Georg Striedter 2018-19 Recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award
2017 Dr. Craig Stark American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
2017 Dr. Sunil Gandhi Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows by the National Academy of Science
2016 Dr. Craig Stark James L. McGaugh Chair in the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory  (CNLM)
2016 Dr. Marcelo Wood Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching conferred by the Academic Senate
2016 Dr. Marcelo Wood Instructional Technology Innovation Award at the 2016 Celebration of Teaching Ceremony
2016 Dr. Bruce McNaughton National Science Foundation Award and named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2016 Dr. Frank LaFerla Distinguished Achievement in Medical and Scientific Research Award from the Association of Sicilian Societies of North America for his Accomplishments in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
2016 Dr. Michael Yassa 5th Recipient of the Quad-L-Early Career Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
2016 Dr. James McGaugh Recognized as the 42nd Most Eminent Psychologist of the Modern Era for his contributions to Neurosciences by the American Psychological Association
2016 Dr. James McGaugh Ranked 5th as one of the Most Influential Neuroscientists Alive today by onlinepsychologydegree.com, for his contributions to the field of learning and memory.
2016 Dr. Christie Fowler Featured as a “Scientist to Watch” in the Scientist Magazine.
2016 Dr. Andrea Tenner Delivered the 10th Hans J. Mueller-Eberhart Memorial Lecture. She is the first woman scientist chosen for this honor.
2016 Dr. Lawrence Cahill Selected by the Journal of Neuroscience Research to serve as a guest editor on a first-of-its-kind themed publication title “An Issue Whose Time Has Come: Sex/Gender Influences on Nervous System Function”
2016 Dr. Andrea Nicholas Dr. Nicholas is the author of a new series of online tutorials published by Garland. Her tutorials will accompany a new textbook titled “Principles of Neurobiology,” by Stanford Professor Liqun Luo.
2014 Dr. Leslie Thompson 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
2014 Dr. Michael Leon W.G Marquis Award from the American Psychological Association for there work in Autism
2014 Dr. Frank LaFerla Highly Cited Researcher Award from Thomson Reuters
2014 Dr. Marcelo Wood 2013-14 Professor of the Year
2014 Dr. Leslie Thompson Awarded Title of Chancellor’s Fellow
2014 Dr. Frank LaFerla Lauds and Laurels. Distinguished Faculty Service Award
2011-2014 Dr. John Middlebrooks President-Elect, President, and Past-President, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
2014 Dr. Carl Cotman Distinguished Alumni Award by The College of Wooster
2013 Dr. Oswald Steward Norman M Weinberger award in recognition for Distinction in Research, Teaching, and Service
2013 Dr. Sunil Gandhi One out of Seventeen Searle Scholars for 2013
2013 Dr. Leslie Thompson Received the Leslie Gehry Brenner Award for Innovation in Science by the Hereditary Disease Foundation
2013 Dr. Leslie Thompson The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
2012 Dr. Larry Cahill 2011 Appreciation Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
2012 Dr. Ian Parker Received the Norman W Weinberger award in Recognition for Distinction in Research, Teaching, and Service.
2012 The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior established a Faculty Award in honor of Professor M. Weinberger in Recognition for Lifetime Distinction in Research, Teaching, and Service.
2012 Dr. Oswald Steward Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Charitable Organization Walking with Anthony.
2012 Dr. Ron Frostig Was elected Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
2012 Dr. Sunil Gandhi Whitehall Foundation Grant Recipient
2012 Dr. Sunil Gandhi Klingenstien-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences
2012 Dr. Carl Cotman Received an Honorary Degree from McGill University.
2012 Dr. Norbert Fortin Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program from the National Science Foundation
2011 Dr. Michael Leon Received the Healthcare Technology Acceleration Award from the Von Liebig Center in the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD.
2011 Dr. Leslie Thompson Recieved the Excellence in Basic Science Teaching Awards for 2011-12 at the School of Medicine.
2011 Dr. Ian Parker Received the Merit Awards from the National Institutes of Health
2011 Dr. Frank LaFerla Became an Elected Member for the American Neurological Association
2011 Dr. James McGaugh Received the Distinguished Visiting Scholar from School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas.
2010 Dr. Frank LaFerla Received the UC Irvine Daniel G. Aldrich Jr. Distinguished University Service Award.
2010 Dr. Frank LaFerla Became a Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2010 Dr. Nobert Fortin Recieved the Whitehall Foundation Award
2009 Dr. Ian Parker Became a Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2009 Dr. Georg Striedter John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2008 Dr. Ian Parker Became a Fellows and Foreign Member for the Royal Society
2007 Dr. Karina Cramer Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program from the National Science Foundation
2006 Dr. Carl Cotman MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health
2006 Dr. Bruce McNaughton Bass Lectures Award from The Society of Neurological Surgeons
2006 Dr. Bruce McNaughton MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health
2005 Dr. Susana Cohen-Cory Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows from the National Academy of Science
2004 Dr. Leslie Thompson Received the Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research Program from the W. M. Keck Foundation
2001 Dr. Carl Cotman Highly Cited Researcher from Thomson Reuters
1998 Dr. Georg Striedter Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Associaton of Anatomists
1997 Dr. Susana Cohen-Cory Sloan Research Fellowship-Neurosciences fro the Alfred P. Sloan FOundation
1995 Dr. Georg Striedter Sloan Research Fellowship-Neurosciences fro the Alfred P. Sloan FOundation
1991 Dr. Carl Cotman American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
1991 Dr. Ron Frostig Beckman Young Investigators Award from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation