at the end of each year, the 3 clubs associated with psychology hold a gala event

Neuroscience axis       psi chi      psychology student alliance

Here are some photos from past events.  GALA 2013 (We would like to thank MC and Brian Loo for the great pictures from this event.)

Reaching for Success. Photography by MC

Renee Hartig, 2012-13 NSA President, who is now at Max Planck, and Andrew Lee, NSA Vice President (Spring 2015). Photograph by MC Photos.

Sheri Levy (far right), co-sponsor of the Psychology Student Alliance, helps students compete to build the tallest spaghetti and marshmallow structure. Photograph by MC Photos.

The competition was stiff. Photograph by MC Photos.

Richard Gerrig demonstrates his lesser known juggling skills while Patricia Whitaker describes what is going on in his brain while he juggles. Photograph by MC Photos.

Brenda Anderson converses with Peter Pedulla. Photograph by MC Photos.

The food was great! Photograph by MC Photos.

Iven Yu, who enters graduate school at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 2015, passes out brain keychains. He is aided by Bill Kochen, now a graduate student in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at George Mason University. Photograph by MC or Brian Loo.

Club officers and faculty. Photograph by MC Photos.

BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK ACTIVITIES

EVERY YEAR NEUROSCIENCE AXIS GOES INTO LONG ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO TALK ABOUT THE BRAIN

Schools in 2014

We brought Brain Awareness Week to JFK Middle School

Brain Awareness week at Comsewogue High School

Brain Awareness week at Ward Melville High School

One of the schools in 2015

Students in Patchogue dissect sheep brains.

Students identify the regions of the sheep brain.

Neuroscience Axis volunteers and the Patchogue students.

THIS YEAR, WE PRESENTED OUR Outreach EFFORTS AT THE BRAIN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN EVENT sponsored by the dana foundation.  The event was held during the ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

AT THE SESSION, OUR PRESENTERS, ANDREW AND ARIELLA, SAW NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, ERIC KANDEL (middle)

Neuroscience Axis organizes opportunities to learn and share information about Neuroscience through extracurricular activities.

Each semester Neuroscience Axis sponsors a talk entitled, “How to get involved in research.”

Some of our common events include…

Sheep brain anatomy 

biologycorner via Compfight

Students learned how to assemble spiker boxes.

We learned to record action potentials with a spiker box, and we present demonstrations in the fall at the Organizational Fair, and in the spring at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) conference.

We have competed in the Roth Pond Regattta

We learned how to use a compound microscope and we played Brain Bingo

A Brain Bingo Card Images of sections are from the NSF funded Human Brain Atlas at https://www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/human/index.html 3D models were developed with the Albany Medical School Virtual Brain Model

At the end of each year, we hold a GALA event with Psi Chi and Psychology Student Alliance.  Past speakers have talked about the neuroscience of juggling, the path to their career in neuroscience, and Art and Neuroscience. (see our GALA post)

Club officers and faculty.

At the end of the year, we hosted a speaker and panel discussion (see our full post on these events).

Please join us for future activities.