Neuroscientist Receives MBLWHOI Library Readership to Research E.E. Just | Trinity College News

Last summer, Trinity College Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Sally Bernardina Seraphin received a Fred Karush Endowed Library Readership from the Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library to support her research project, Progress in Developmental Neuroscience: From E.E. Just, to the Present, and Beyond.

The readership allowed Seraphin to return to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in June and July, where she had spent 10 weeks each of the previous three summers conducting research with Trinity students as an E.E. Just Fellow. In 2024, Seraphin narrated a video about the life of Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941), the first African American student to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and to work at the Marine Biological Laboratory, and became interested in further researching and contextualizing his early contributions to neuroscience. “Apart from us both being Black scientists who had spent time at Howard University, I realized that we had a lot more in common,” Seraphin said. Read rest of the story here.

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