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Joseph H. Neale

  Joseph H. Neale
  Paduano Distinguished Professor

 

  Email Address: nealej@georgetown.edu
  Phone Number: 202-687-5574
 
  Reiss 407

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS  PEOPLE  |  PUBLICATIONS

 


 

The Neale-Oppenheimer Family: Joe, Brett, Marcy, Ethan

 


 

Neale Lab Group, Summer 2010

 


 

Personal Information

  •  Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1970, Biology, Biochemistry.
  • Assistant Research Biochemist, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan.
  • Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda.
  • Guest Scientist, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, NINCDS, NIH, Bethesda.
  • Principal Investigator, Neurobiology Research Branch, AFRRI, DOD, Bethesda, MD, 1976-77.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Wash., DC, 1977-81.
  • Associate Professor, Georgetown University, 1981-1988.
  • Research Physiologist, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, NINCDS, NIH, 5/15-9/1/88.
  • Professor, Georgetown University, 1988-present.
  • Paduano Distinguished Professor, 2004-present
  • Chair of Biology, Georgetown University, 1990-2000.
  • Sony Teaching Scholar, 1994-1997
  • Director, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Scholars Program at Georgetown University, 1992-present.
  • Chair, Student Advisory Committee, Founding Member, Executive Committee Member, Georgetown Interdisciplinary (Graduate) Program in Neuroscience (IPN).
  • Director, Undergraduate Studies in Biology, Georgetown College.
  • Director, Undergraduate Major in Neurobiology, Department of Biology, Georgetown College.


Academic Honors and Professional Appointments

  • NASA, Pre-doctoral Fellow, 1966.
  • National Institutes of Health, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1975.
  • 1979 Achievement Award in the Biological Sciences, Washington Academy of Sciences.
  • Co-Editor, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1981-89.
  • Member, Developmental Neurobiology Review Committee, NSF, 1984-1987.
  • Panel Member, Neurological Sciences Study Sections, NIH, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91.
  • Panel Member, Pharm/Biochem Review Com., NIDA, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94.
  • President, Potomac Chapter, Society for Neuroscience, 1989-90; President-elect, 1988-89.
  • Sony Teaching Scholar, 1994-1997.
  • Recipient of Inaugural Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University, 1996.
  • Professor of the Year, Washington D.C., Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1998.
  • Secretary and Treasurer Georgetown Chapter, Sigma Xi, 1980-1988.
  • President, Georgetown Chapter, Sigma Xi, 1998-present.
  • Paduano Distinguished Professorship, 2004-present.
  • 2007 Career Research Achievement Award, The Graduate School, Georgetown University.

 

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