Gunnar Kwakye
- Robert W. & Eleanor H. Biggs Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Chair of Neuroscience
News
Goldwater Scholarship Recipient Tanisha Shende ’26 Aims to Make Virtual Reality More Accessible
As a recent recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship, the third-year student will continue to work toward educational equity and responsible technology.
Elsa Faulders ’26: Lofty Aspirations, Grounded Principles
A neuroscience major with a concentration in global health, Elsa Faulders ’26 has lofty aspirations. She thanks Oberlin for her grounding principles. Learn more about how she applied these with her internship at the Penn Medicine Biobank through Summer Experience Funding.
Kayla Elias ’25 Conducts Research at the Elahi Lab
Kayla Elias ’25 knows exactly what she wants to do after college, and is setting herself up perfectly via her Internship+ program placement at the Elahi Lab at the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. At Oberlin, Kayla is on the pre-medical track, majoring in neuroscience and biochemistry. As an aspiring physician-scientist, she is following Dr. Fanny Elahi, who does just that and is learning how Dr. Elahi balances research and clinic work.