The OSU Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences recently had the pleasure of nominating a winning student for the 2023-2024 FABBS Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards; congratulations to Florencia Ontiveros!

FABBS (the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences) provides annual awards to the most deserving undergraduate and graduate student investigators who have conducted research of superior quality and with broader societal impact.

Florencia is certainly a deserving candidate who first encountered cognitive science through the CCBS Humanities & Cogntive Science Institute as a high schooler. Florencia enjoyed her week at OSU that summer, and she began her undergraduate career here the following year. She has since participated in most of the CCBS programs throughout her undergraduate career while also conducting research in labs through the CCBBI ANDiR initiative, and most recently conducting impressive research on children's traumatic brain injury with Dr. Kristen Hoskinson, at Nationwide Children's Hospital. 

Florencia graduated from OSU this past Spring with a degree in Neuroscience with a Cognitive and Computational focus, and a minor in Computer and Information Science. She will continue working with Dr. Hoskinson while preparing to apply for graduate school this autumn. Florencia is an outstanding example for future undergraduate researchers, and we look forward to watching her academic career flourish.