Ossining Student Earns Rising Scientist Award

The Child Mind Institute presented its annual Rising Scientist Awards to Brinda Ramesh and 9 other exceptional high school students from the New York City metropolitan area on Oct. 9 at Hunter College in Manhattan.

The students chosen have demonstrated exceptional promise and an interest in neuroscience, CMI officials said. Ramesh is a student at Ossining High School, which will receive $500 from the Child Mind Institute for its science department.

For more information on the 2014 Rising Scientists Awards please visit: http://www.childmind.org/en/rising-scientist-award/

PHOTO: Brinda Ramesh and her parents, flanked by CMI’s president Dr. Koplewicz on the right and on the left Dr. Pasko Rakic, MD, PhD, Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology; Department Chair, Neurobiology; Director Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. Dr. Rakic was awarded this year’s Child Mind Institute Distinguished Scientist Award./credit: Ann Billingsley.