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 title: Lab members attend Neuroinformatics 2018
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-excerpt: Dr. Laird, Dr. Riedel, Katie, and Taylor attend Neuroinformatics 2018 in Montreal
+excerpt: Dr. Laird, Dr. Riedel, Katie, and Taylor attend Neuroinformatics 2018 in Montreal.
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 [Dr. Laird](/team/laird-angela), [Dr. Riedel](/team/riedel-michael), [Katie](/team/bottenhorn-katherine), and [Taylor](/team/salo-taylor) attended the INCF Neuroinformatics 2018 conference in Montreal on August 9-10. Before the conference, Katie and Taylor also participated in the conference's associated hackathon, working on a new metric to measure currently undervalued researcher contributions like code, service, and data sharing.
 
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 title: Cog neuro labs host first in-house hackathon!
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-excerpt: First in-house cog neuro hackathon for brainconn
+excerpt: First in-house cog neuro hackathon for brainconn.
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 The NBC lab and [MAD lab](http://madlab.fiu.edu) have organized the cognitive neuroscience program's first in-house hackathon, where we worked on the [brainconn](/software/brainconn) package.
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+title: Congratulations to Dr. Sutherland!
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+excerpt: Dr. Sutherland honored as Faculty Senate Awardee for Excellence in Research & Creative Activities.
+---
+A big congrats to Dr. Sutherland for being honored as one of the [2018 Faculty Senate Awardees](https://academic.fiu.edu/docs/Faculty%20Convocation%20Awardees%20with%20Photos_PDF.pdf) for Excellence in Research & Creative Activities. Faculty Senate Awards were conferred at an awards ceremony and dinner with FIU President Dr. Mark B. Rosenberg, Provost & Executive Vice President Dr. Kenneth G. Furton, and Faculty Senate Chairperson Dr. Joerg Reinhold.
+
+[Read more about FIU’s Faculty Senate Awards here.](https://facultysenate.fiu.edu/awards/)