Elissa Hallem

Elissa A. Hallem is an American neurobiologist. She won a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship.[1][2]

Elissa Hallem
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWilliams College;
Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiologist

Life

Elissa Hallem was born in Santa Monica, California in 1977. In 8th grade she enrolled in a summer program run by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth where she followed a course in psychology held at the Loyola Marymount University at Los Angeles. During high school, she worked in a UCLA lab with professor S. Lawrence Zipursky, a family friend. She graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in biology and chemistry in 1999, and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005.[3]

gollark: If you go out of your way to do exactly the opposite of what "rules" say, they have as much control over you as they do on someone who does exactly what the rules *do* say.
gollark: I'm glad you're making sure to violate norms in socially approved ways which signify you as "out there" or something.
gollark: > if you can convince them that their suffering benefits other people, then they'll happily submit to itI am not convinced that this is actually true of people, given any instance of "selfishness" etc. ever.
gollark: Yes, you can only make something optimize effectively for good if you can define what that is rigorously, and people haven't yet and wouldn't agree on it.
gollark: Ignore them, they are clearly the government.

References
  1. "Elissa Hallem – MacArthur Foundation". Macfound.org. 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  2. Adams, Jackie (November 29, 2012). "The Genius Series: MacArthur Winner Elissa Hallem". Los Angeles Magazine.
  3. Wolpert, Stuart (2012-10-02). "UCLA life scientist Elissa Hallem awarded MacArthur 'genius' grant / UCLA Newsroom". Newsroom.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
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