What/when were you at Brown?
Undergraduate. 1987-1991.
What do you do now? Provide a brief description of what you do for a living and what drives you professionally.
I am Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University. Research in my lab is focused on understanding how experience assembles and alters the properties of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, in both normal and disease states.
How did your experience at Brown (in the lab, in the classroom, and in the Brown community) prepare you for what you do today?
Brown showed me how big the world can be. I learned how to become a sophisticated thinker and an active participant in an intellectual community.