\u201cCareers in Neuroscience\u201d Panel Discussion<\/b><\/p>\n
On December 14th, 2011, the Neuroscience GSA sponsored and hosted a panel discussion focusing on the transition from graduate school to a post-graduate position.\u00a0 The panel consisted of six faculty members from UB or Canisius College and one post-doctoral fellow from UB.\u00a0 Topics included starting up a lab, differences between academia and industry, aspects of funding and support, and other issues facing students as they move beyond graduate school.\u00a0 Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n Brain Bee<\/b><\/p>\n This February (2012), the members of the nGSA participated in the Brain Bee for the 3rd<\/sup> year in a row.\u00a0 The Brain Bee is a competition that tests high school students\u2019 knowledge about the brain and is sponsored by the Buffalo Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.\u00a0 Dr. Elizabeth Hogan, a faculty member at Canisius College, and Neuroscience graduate student Sarah Hayes organized the event.\u00a0 Several UB Neuroscience graduate students provided a review session for the high school students in the competition.\u00a0 Another group of Neuroscience graduate students served as judges.\u00a0 Click here for more.<\/a><\/p>\n Invited Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n For the second year, the Neuroscience GSA sponsored an invited speaker.\u00a0 This year the speaker was Dr. John DeLuca, a world-renowned researcher in the area of cognitive impairments in Multiple Sclerosis.\u00a0 In addition to his talk, Dr. DeLuca met and had dinner with nGSA members during his visit.\u00a0 To see the talk abstract, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Brain Awareness Week<\/b><\/p>\n On Monday, April 2nd (2012), the Neuroscience GSA once again took part in Brain Awareness Week, a community outreach program initiated by the Society for Neuroscience to increase awareness about the brain and behavior.\u00a0 Members of the Neuroscience GSA brought fun and interactive demonstrations to two different schools.\u00a0 The elementary\/middle school students were shown human, sheep, and rat brain specimens, viewed slides of the brain through a microscope, learned about attention and perception, and took part in interactive demonstrations that illustrated how their senses integrate information.\u00a0 These demonstrations provided a fun introduction to brain anatomy and physiology, sensory perception, and behavior.\u00a0 Sixteen graduate students participated in the event and several UB Neuroscience faculty provided materials for the demonstrations.\u00a0 For a more complete overview of the event, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Neuroscience GSA Travel Award<\/b><\/p>\n Pete Vento was the recipient of the first ever nGSA Travel Award.\u00a0 Pete is a PhD student in the Behavioral Neuroscience Program in the Department of Psychology.\u00a0 He is part of Dr. Derek Daniels laboratory, which focuses on the neurobiology of ingestive behaviors.\u00a0 He has also been an very active member of the nGSA for the past several years.\u00a0 Pete will be presenting a poster at the 20th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, in Zurich, Switzerland in July.\u00a0 For the poster abstract, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cCareers in Neuroscience\u201d Panel Discussion On December 14th, 2011, the Neuroscience GSA sponsored and hosted a panel discussion focusing on the transition from graduate school to a post-graduate position.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}