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Ling-Lie Chau Graduate Student Award for Brain Research

Ling-Lie Chau Graduate Student Award for Brain Research

The Ling-Lie Chau Graduate Student Award for Brain Research supports high-achieving graduate students who have passed all qualification requirements and become official candidates of Ph.D. and/or M.D. programs and who will carry out brain research within the Neuroscience Graduate Program and administered by the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience to enhance the educational experience and attract quality candidates for future graduate student recruitment. The Award provides financial support for trainees to attend conferences, workshops, and courses that advance their knowledge and skills and expand their professional networks.

Dr. Ling-Lie Chau standing beside a life size photo of Albert Einstein

 

About Ling-Lie Chau, Ph.D.

Ling-Lie Chau is a Professor Emerita in Physics at UC Davis. Besides her endowment gifts to encourage and support excellence in physics education and research, this endowment gift to encourage and support excellence in brain research is a token to express her belief that basic research on the brain and its diseases is of utmost importance and to express her appreciation and support of the excellent basic research being carried out at the Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis. She, among many, hopes that such basic research not only will result in finding cures to brain diseases but also will lead to the fundamental understanding of the workings of the human brain, which is undeniably the most essential organ of a human (making thought and emotions, analyzing sights and hearings, commending motions and speeches, etc., thus defines the being of each human), and considered by many the most complex thing in the universe. She hopes that the Center for Neuroscience will be a long-term endeavor at UC Davis, and to which the Award will be of help in perpetuity.

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