Have you ever wanted to hold a human brain in your hands? Neuroscientists at Dartmouth College recently offered local high school students and their families the unique opportunity to do just that, at the 5th Annual Upper Valley Brain Bee on April 22nd, 2017.
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Selbi Nuryyeva, a chemistry graduate student at Dartmouth in the lab of Professor Ivan Aprahamian, recently had her groundbreaking research on a drug for Malaria published in Nature Communications. At Dartmouth, Nuryyeva conducts research on molecular machines, an area of chemistry that won the Nobel Prize this year. Her interest in research began during her undergraduate career at NYU Abu Dhabi where she took advantage of several extracurricular research opportunities.
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How does your brain work? Maybe there are days when you wonder if it’s working at all. This fascinating organ is arguably what makes us who we are, but how this happens is largely a mystery. At a recent Brain Buzz event, hosted by the School of Graduate Studies in partnership with the Upper Valley Food Coop in White River Junction and the Vermont Institute for Natural Sciences (VINS), PhD researchers Emily Stephens and Max Mehlman introduced a packed room to their research and a basic overview of what we know about the brain.
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On Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2017, tens of thousands of people participated in rallies, walks, and marches held in Washington D.C. and in hundreds of other cities across the world. The March for Science saw an outpouring of support for science that was “unprecedented in terms of the scale and breadth of the scientific community involved,” according to Robert Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford University.
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The 31st Annual Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth held on Saturday, April 8th, saw the attendance of over 100 faculty members, post-doctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students from Dartmouth, Keene State College, and the University of Vermont. Attendees congregated at the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center to share their research and discuss current work in the field of neuroscience.
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