Neuroscience

Neuroscience Reception for graduating seniors, family and friends. Refreshments will be served in the McCardell Bicentennial Hall Great Hall.

Senior thesis presentations by Kristen Monten, “Multiple Mechanisms of Sleep Regulation: An exploration of local cortical regulation of sleep intensity and global behavioral state” and Olivia Olsen, “Sea minks (Neovison macrodon) in context: ecology, phylogeny, and extinction.”

The Neuroscience Program will host a virtual reception with individual faculty, for seniors and their families. Please see our webpage for details closer to the event date! www.middlebury.edu/academics/neuro

Talk by Patricia Simon, Ph.D. Multiple tobacco product use among youth is a significant public health concern. Among youth who use any tobacco product, 34.7% reported current use of multiple tobacco products (i.e., two or more tobacco products in the past 30 days). Since tobacco companies target consumers based on clearly defined user segments, the success of tobacco use prevention efforts can be bolstered by a deeper understanding of how multiple tobacco product use is segmented among adolescents.

NSCI Thesis Presentation by Lyn Ackert-Smith ‘21: “Understanding brain states: Slow fluctuations of complexity in the hippocampus” Via Zoom: go.middlebury.edu/neurothesis
Visit: www.middlebury.edu/academics/neuro/news

 

Neuroscience Seminar and Q&A by Dr. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Dept of Biology, UPenn: “Mouse pain scales and neural circuits for social touch” (via Zoom Webinar). A Q&A for students will follow the talk. Advanced registration is required: visit www.middlebury.edu/academics/neuro/news for details.

Opportunity for NSCI majors to learn more about helping local high school students prepare for the annual Vermont Brain Bee. VBB Coordinator Lisa Bernardin will be on hand discuss details.

Sonia Shechet Epstein ‘09, specializes in the intersection of science and cinema. At the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York, she runs the Sloan Science & Film initiative which is comprised of a website publishing writing about film from a scientific angle, commissioning scientists on film, and producing educational materials. Also at the Museum, Sonia curates an ongoing film series that brings scientists and filmmakers together for conversation following screenings of rarely seen films.

Join us for a talk by Midd Alum, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana ‘14, UC San Diego,