Honorary degree citation - Bryan Kolb

By: Jane Stewart, June 2014

Mr. Deputy Chancellor, it is my honour to present to you Bryan Kolb, distinguished scholar and one of Canada’s most prominent behavioural neuroscientists.

Bryan Kolb is a native of Calgary and is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, where he has been since 1976.

He received both a Bachelor and Master’s degree from the University of Calgary, a Ph.D from Pennsylvania State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Western Ontario and the Montreal Neurological Institute. His recent work has focused on the development of the prefrontal cortex, how neurons of the cerebral cortex change in response to various developmental