Show & Tell 19 Speaker, Marlene Behrmann, Elected To National Academy of Sciences-Project Olympus - Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Show & Tell 19 Speaker, Marlene Behrmann, Elected To National Academy of Sciences

Carnegie Mellon University’s Marlene Behrmann, the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and CMU co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). She is the first female scientist from CMU to be elected to the NAS.

Behrmann is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries to be elected this year to the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

"Very few researchers make a clear and vivid connection between the brain and the mind. Marlene is one of them. Her pioneering work on how the brains of normal and autistic subjects differ has changed our view of the disease. This is a well deserved honor for Marlene — we are extremely fortunate to have her on our faculty," said Richard Scheines, dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.


Read the entire story on Carnegie Mellon University's main website.
By: Shilo Rea