creating a nationally recognized mentoring program for junior faculty and undergraduate students in the neurosciences, particularly for those faculty and students from underrepresented groups in the sciences. Finally, in 2015, Ramirez received the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring from the Society for Neuroscience. Education Ramirez graduated from Kolbe Cathedral High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He then received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Fairfield University in 1977 and his master's and doctorate degrees in psychology from Clark University. He did his postdoctoral work in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1986. References External links Davidson College profile page Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience website Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education website Living people People from Bridgeport, Connecticut Davidson College faculty Fairfield University alumni Clark University alumni 21st-century American psychologists American neuroscientists Year of birth missing (living people)