{"id":1518,"date":"2025-01-06T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/advance\/?post_type=class_notes&#038;p=1518"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:57:51","slug":"biology-alumna-receives-mcknight-brain-research-foundation-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"class_notes","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/advance\/class-note-updates\/biology-alumna-receives-mcknight-brain-research-foundation-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Janine Kwapis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-biology-alumna-receives-mcknight-brain-research-foundation-innovation-award\">Biology alumna receives McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovation Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Janine Kwapis, Paul Berg Early Career Professor in the Biological Sciences and assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been awarded the 2024 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Award in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss by the American Federation for Aging Research and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation. 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