On November 14th<\/sup>, 2012, the Neuroscience GSA organized a panel of PhD and Masters students in Neuroscience and Psychology to discuss the experience of being a graduate student in the biomedical and psychological sciences.\u00a0 The panelists engaged in a discussion covering a wide range of topics.\u00a0 Following the panel discussion, audience members were invited to continue the conversation with panelists over food and drink.\u00a0 Click here for the full description.<\/a><\/p>\n The Neuroscience GSA\u2019s third annual invited speaker was Dr. Alison Barth from Carnegie Mellon University.\u00a0 Dr. Barth is an accomplished scientist whose research focuses on neural activity and network connectivity in sensory cortex.\u00a0 Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n During the fall of 2012, the Neuroscience GSA organized an interdepartmental social event that was meant to stimulate interaction between graduate students from related academic disciplines.\u00a0 The Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Microbiology GSAs all took part in the event.\u00a0 Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n For the fourth consecutive year, the Neuroscience GSA helped organize the Western New York Brain Bee, a competition that tests high school students knowledge about the brain.\u00a0 NGSA members provided a review class for the high school participants and served as judges for the competition.\u00a0 An overview of the event can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n This year the Neuroscience GSA expanded its annual Brain Awareness Week program, an event meant to increase knowledge and excitement about the brain and science in elementary, middle, and high school students.\u00a0 The NGSA worked in collaboration with the UB Brain Museum to provide a comprehensive learning experience for students. \u00a0Multiple area schools came to UB to take part in Brain Awareness Week this year over the span of several months.\u00a0 A full description of the event can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graduate Student Panel Discussion On November 14th, 2012, the Neuroscience GSA organized a panel of PhD and Masters students in Neuroscience and Psychology to discuss the experience of being a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Neuroscience GSA Invited Speaker<\/h3>\n
Interdepartmental Social Event<\/h3>\n
Western New York Brain Bee<\/h3>\n
Brain Awareness Week<\/h3>\n