Julio Ramirez, PhD
R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology
Davidson College

Julio Ramirez has made significant contributions to undergraduate science education. In 1989, The Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1989 recognized his contributions to undergraduate science education when he was named the North Carolina Professor of the Year and a National Gold Medal Professor of the Year. In 1993, Project Kaleidoscope selected his neuroscience program at Davidson College as a national model for innovative undergraduate science education.

In 2000, he was named a Fellow of the Council on Undergraduate Research, Washington D.C., for his contributions to undergraduate science education and research. Most recently, he was given the 2004 National Science Foundation Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars for excellence in undergraduate science education and research. He was the Founding President of Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience and is Founding Senior Editor of the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from Clark University in 1983 and subsequently did postdoctoral work at MIT. His research interests include the recovery of function after central nervous system injury, with an emphasis on the functional significance of hippocampal neuroplasticity.