The Davidson Institute for Talent Development honored CFA freshman Sara Kornfeld Simpson at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on September 26, 2014. Sara was named a Davidson Fellow Laureate, and was awarded the institute’s highest scholarship.
Sara has a foot in two worlds: neuroscience and music. She plays the flute and oboe, and has even performed on the famous Kennedy Center stage in Washington, D.C. She was inspired to start studying the brain during her freshman year of high school after working with a band conductor who had Parkinson’s disease. Her recent work combines physics, biology, and computational science to draw new conclusions about neurons in the brain related to Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders.
This year, Sara continued her studies as a freshman and a Trustee Scholar at Boston University studying both neuroscience and music performance in a dual degree program.