This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the classroom and research lab by a student in the Neuroscience Minor and encourages students to consider careers related to neuroscience. It is named the Florence Robinson Neuroscience Award in honor of Professor Susan Fahrbach's mother-in-law, an economist with a love for education who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2003.

The co-award winners for 2009 were Rob Stowe (left) and Colston Edgerton