Glushko Prizes are awarded each term to all students who are designated as recipients of Highest Honors by their thesis committees. The winners receive a cash prize
Past Winners:
2024
2023
2022
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Yoo Bin Lee for “Polyubiquitination of Tau Increases Across Braak Stages in Alzheimer’s Disease”
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First reader: Professor Richard B Ivry
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Second reader: Professor Lea Grinberg
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Akash Kulgod for “Towards a 4E Approach to Canine Olfaction”
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First reader: Professor Lucia Jacobs
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Second reader: Professor Frederic Theunissen
2021
- Oliver Krentzman for “The Cognitive, Psychological, and Physical Effect of Wim Hof’s Breathing Method: An Exploratory Study”
- First reader: David E. Presti, Ph.D.
- Second reader: Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.
- Bonmu Ku for “Understanding Discursive Relativity in Spatial Cognition of L1-Korean-L2-English Bilinguals”
- Advisor: Professor Terry Regier
- Second reader: Professor Dor Abrahamson
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Henry Allen for “Decoding Current and Previous Orientation from Small Targets in the Periphery Using Magnetoencephalography”
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Advisors: David Whitney (first reader), Yuki Murai (postdoc advisor)
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Second Reader: Kevin Weiner
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Alison White for “Adolescent mental health and the potential for idiographic medicine using digital health strategies”
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Advisor: Dr. Aaron Fisher at UC Berkeley
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Second Reader Dr. Tiffany Ho at UCSF
- Audrey Phan for "Disentangling the Contributions of Proactive and Reactive Control to Impulsivity"
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Advisors: Mark D’Esposito, M.D. and Regina Lapate, Ph.D.
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Second Reader: Linda Isaac, Ph.D.
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2020
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Olivia Murillo for “An Analysis of the Relationships between Sleep Deprivation, Frontal Alpha Asymmetry, and Affect”
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Advisors: Raphael Vallat, PhD and Eti Ben-Simon, PhD
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Readers: David Presti, PhD and Linda Isaac, PhD
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Sathvik Nair for "Attention-based Neural Networks Encode Aspects of Human Word Sense Knowledge"
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Advisors: Dr. Stephan Meylan and Professor Mahesh Srinivasan
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Second Reader: Professor Steven Piantadosi
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- Jessica Lindsey for “Workplace Kindness Predicts Job Satisfaction and Happiness at Work”\
2019
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Joseph Schenker for “Task-Switching Performance Relates to Dissociable Network Connectivity Patterns at Rest”
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Faculty Advisor and 1st Reader: Professor Mark D’Esposito
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Co-Advisor and 2nd Reader: Dr. Pauline Baniqued
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Serena Meghani for “How Might We Use Words like Might? Categorical Distinctions in Epistemic Modal Verbs as Seen Through Modal Judgment Tasks”
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Thesis advisor: Shaun O’Grady
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Faculty mentor: Mahesh Srinivasan
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Illina Bhaya-Grossman for “Dual-EEG Evidence for a Shared Cognitive Space Underlying Human Communication”
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Advisors: Professor Robert Knight and Dr Arjen Stolk
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Reader: Professor Richard Ivry
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Ben Truong for “The Cause of Bias: Expedient Empathy”
2018
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Nora Harhen for “The Influence of Goal Setting on Value Learning: Examining how Goal-directed Behavior leverages the Reinforcement Learning System”
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Advisor: Anne Collins
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Second Reader: Linda Wilbrecht
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Alagia Cirolia