News & Media

November 2023

Guinevere Eden and Alison Schug were featured in an interview with The Hoya about Planet Word's new installation focused on dyslexia. Read the article.

October 2023

Guinevere Eden was featured in an interview with Education Writers Association about Planet Word's new installation focused on dyslexia. Read the article.

August 2023

Marissa Laws successfully defended her doctoral dissertation! See photos here.

Alison Schug successfully defended her doctoral dissertation! See photos here.

June 2023

Marissa Laws was awarded "Top Oral Presentation" from the Georgetown University Pediatrics Department Research Day.

February 2023

Guinevere Eden was featured in an interview with CNN about how changing fonts can make reading easier for some. Read the article.

September 2022

Marissa Laws was awarded the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD F31 Predoctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship.

June 2022

Alison Schug was awarded "Top Oral Presentation" from the Georgetown University Pediatrics Department Research Day.

July 2021

Cameron McKay successfully defended his doctoral dissertation! See photos here.

July 2020

Alison Schug was accepted for an NIH-sponsored TL1 award in the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science training program in Translational Biomedical Science.

June 2020

Breana Downey successfully defended her doctoral dissertation! See photos here.

May 2020

Sikoya Ashburn successfully defended her doctoral dissertation! See photos here.

November 2019

Sikoya Ashburn received the Dr. Zofia Zukowska Award for Excellence in Thesis Research. See photos here.

September 2019

Cameron McKay was awarded the NIH/NICHD National Research Service Award (NRSA) F31 Award.

July 2019

Sikoya Ashburn was awarded the NIH Blueprint D-SPAN (Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience) F99/K00 Award.

May 2019

Edith Brignoni-Pérez successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, titled "Investigating the Neurofunctional Bases of Word Reading in the Spanish-English Bilingual Brain"! See photos here.

Gabrielle-Ann Torre successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, titled "Studies of the Brain-Behavioral Relationships of Anatomy and Reading Ability"! See photos here.

Sikoya Ashburn was awarded a prize for her presentation at the Dept. of Pediatrics research day event! See photos here.

April 2019

Marissa Laws was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).

March 2019

Sikoya Ashburn was awarded the Dr. Karen Gale Award for Exceptional Ph.D. Student in the Sciences. Dr. Guinevere Eden and Gabrielle-Ann Torre were also nominated for awards. See photos.

September 2018

Cameron McKay was interviewed by Georgetown University Press about his research in CSL under the Neural Injury and Plasticity Training Program. Read the article.

Anna Matejko was interviewed by Georgetown University Press about her leadership for Georgetown University's Postdoctoral Association. Read the article.  

June 2018

Guinevere Eden was featured in an interview with Wired Magazine about advancements in dyslexia. See the full video. 

Guinevere Eden was interviewed by Eye on Design Magazine about special fonts in dyslexia. Read the article. 

February 2018

Guinevere Eden was recently awarded a $1.7 million grant from National Science Foundation to understand the relationship between reading and math difficulties.

September 2017

Guinevere Eden was featured in an interview with APM Reports. See the full interview.

Anna Matejko was featured in  Georgetown's "Research in a Minute" for Postdoc Appreciation Week

June 2017

Edith Brignoni-Perez was featured as a panelist on a public event held by the National Core for Neuroethics.  

November 2016

Guinevere Eden received the Leadership in Research Award at Georgetown University Medical Center's ninth annual Convocation Award Ceremony from President DeGioia. 

October 2016

Guinevere Eden received the Norman Geschwind Award from the International Dyslexia Assocation at IDA's Annual International Conference in Orlando, Fl. 

September 2016

Cameron McKay received 1st place for his oral presentation at Student Research Day in 2016.

Gabrielle-Ann Torre received 1st place for her poster presentation at Student Research Day in 2016.

Sikoya Ashburn was selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Associate and Edith Brignoni-Perez was selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience.

June 2016

Edith Brignoni-Perez was selected as a summer fellow for the 2016 Mortimer D. Sackler Summer Institute in Developmental Psychobiology and Sikoya Ashburn was selected as a summer fellow for the 2016 Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

May 2016

Guinevere Eden provided testimony for the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC (read more here). Pictured above: Dr. Eden with Senator Elizabeth Warren and dyslexia spokesperson Ameer Baraka.

July 2015

Ted Turesky becomes Board Member of American Tinnitus Association (ATA).

June 2015

Edith Brignoni-Perez and Gabrielle-Ann Torre were selected as summer fellows for the 2015 Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

May 2015

Guinevere Eden recently funded by a $2,857,767 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a part of the National Institutes of Health.

September 2014

Guinevere Eden provides testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. 

January 2014

Less Brain Tissue Not to Blame for Reading Difficulties

June 2013

Georgetown Conducts Groundbreaking Dyslexia Research