{"id":277,"date":"2014-08-15T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2014-08-15T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:44:21","slug":"events-spotlight-2013-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/neuronews-newsletter\/issue-3-2013-2014\/events-spotlight-2013-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Events Spotlight, 2013-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Neuroscience Research Day Graduate Student Social<\/h3>\n<p>Following the 2013 University at Buffalo Neuroscience Research Day, Neuroscience graduate students from across the spectrum gathered together to continue the conversation.\u00a0 <a title=\"Neuroscience Research Day Social\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/neuroscience-research-day-social\/\">Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Careers in Industry&#8221; Field Trip<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the Neuroscience GSA visited Life Technologies to learn about industry positions in science in the fall of 2013.\u00a0 <a title=\"\u201cCareers in Industry\u201d Field Trip\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/careers-in-industry-field-trip\/\">Click here to read about the experience.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Interdepartmental Social Event<\/h3>\n<p>In December of 2013, the Neuroscience, Pharm\/Tox, and Biological Sciences GSAs gathered together for a social at the chocolate bar.\u00a0 <a title=\"Interdepartmental Social at the Chocolate Bar\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/interdepartmental-social-at-the-chocolate-bar\/\">Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Western New York Brain Bee<\/h3>\n<p>For the fifth 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 <a title=\"Western New York Brain Bee 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/western-new-york-brain-bee-2014\/\">An overview of the event can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Annual Invited Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>In May of 2014, the Neuroscience GSA invited its fourth annual invited speaker, Dr. R. Douglas Fields, Chief of Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section at the NIH.\u00a0 <a title=\"Neuroscience GSA Annual Invited Speaker: Dr. R. Douglas Fields\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/neuroscience-gsa-annual-invited-speaker-dr-r-douglas-fields\/\">Click here for an overview of the event.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Brain Awareness Week Events<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout the Spring of 2014, the Neuroscience GSA was involved in multiple Brain Awareness Week events.\u00a0 NGSA members volunteered their time to teach elementary, middle school, and high school students about the brain.\u00a0 Local schools participating in the event included Hutch Tech, Heim Middle School, and PS 89 of Buffalo.\u00a0 <a title=\"Brain Awareness Week Events 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/brain-awareness-week-events-2014\/\">Click here to see pictures and a description of this outreach. <\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Girl Scouts of WNY &#8220;Go to Neuro School&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>This year the Neuroscience GSA expanded its student outreach to include the first annual &#8220;Go to Neuro School&#8221; event with the Girl Scouts of WNY.\u00a0 Neuroscience GSA members taught girl scouts about the brain and career opportunities in the sciences.\u00a0 <a title=\"Girl Scouts of WNY \u201cGo to Neuro School\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/girl-scouts-of-wny-go-to-neuro-school\/\">Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Neuroscience Picnic<\/h3>\n<p>The Neuroscience GSA held its annual picnic again in June.\u00a0 <a title=\"Neuroscience Picnic\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/neuroscience-picnic\/\">Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Neuroscience Trivia Social<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the Neuroscience GSA community gathered together for a fun night of Neuroscience-related trivia. \u00a0<a title=\"Neuroscience Trivia Night\" href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/08\/15\/neuroscience-trivia-night\/\">Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience Research Day Graduate Student Social Following the 2013 University at Buffalo Neuroscience Research Day, Neuroscience graduate students from across the spectrum gathered together to continue the conversation.\u00a0 Click here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"parent":217,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}