Kavli Institute member Hal Blumenfeld was honored at this year’s Convocation with a Graduate Mentor Award, along with Verity Harte, professor of philosophy and classics, and Naomi Lamoreaux, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History and chair of the Department of History. These awards recognize advisers who have been exceptionally supportive of their students’ professional, scholarly and personal development. The winners were chosen from more than 50 faculty members who were nominated anonymously by their students.
Blumenfeld is the Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor, director of the Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center, and professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Neurosurgery at Yale Medical School. His research focuses on epilepsy and the neural mechanisms of consciousness. One student wrote that Blumenfeld’s “passion for his work … is unmatched by any mentor I have encountered. He has an excitement for his research that is contagious.”
Learn more about Blumenfeld's research in this Kavli Q&A: Hal Blumenfeld on epilepsy is teaching us about consciousness. The Blumenfeld Lab was also recently the focus of an Undergraduate Research at Yale Spotlight (video).