Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

David Lindenbach from Tacoma, WA has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

David Lindenbach's nominator writes that he has become the "go-to" individual in the laboratory, and is an exceptional and increasingly independent scientist. Intelligent and motivated, he has played a central role in the technical and conceptual training of new students, has a keen and curious mind, shows remarkable ingenuity and patience, and has mastered an incredible cadre of techniques for the study of behavioral pharmacology, neuroplasticity and neurodegeneration. Instrumental in optimizing the laboratory's approach in vivo microdialysis, he nearly singled-handedly initiated the development of a new research direction regarding the motor cortex in Parkinson's disease, allowing him to uniquely examine questions from multiple levels of analysis. He has made 13 poster presentations and has three lead-authored publications and two others published in journals including the high-impact, peer-reviewed Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, as well as Neuropharmacology; Psychopharmacology; the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior; and the Journal of Brain Research.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.