Understanding the Mind and Brain
Speaker:
George D. Pollak
20 Sep 2013
5:30 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
George Pollak is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas, where he studies how the brain controls behavior. His expertise is in auditory neuroscience and how we process sound, including how the brain computes from where in space a sound is coming. He uses bats as experimental subjects due to their high reliance on hearing. Dr. Pollak's many honors and awards include a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders and a Career Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. Pollak earned his PhD in physiology from the University of Maryland and has been on the faculty at the University of Texas since 1973.
George Pollak served as Chairman of the Hearing Research Study Section of the NIH from 1989 to 1991. In 1990, 1994 and 1997 he received Alexander von Humboldt Awards and during those periods was a visiting professor at the University of Munich. In recognition of his contributions to auditory neuroscience, he received a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders in 1996. In 1997 he was the recipient of a President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Texas. During the spring and summer of 1999 he was a Virginia Merrill Bloedel Fellow at the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Center for Hearing Research, University of Washington Medical School.