March 2018
Visual Storytelling Lab with Matteo Farinella
Through a mix of drawing activities and laboratory experimentation, this workshop investigates the potential of comics as a format for science communication.
Find out more »Entertaining Science: You Are Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix’s influence on brain science are explored by André Fenton of NYU, and on the acoustic guitar by visiting Argentinian guitar virtuoso Dario Acosta Teich.
Find out more »Evidence and Theory in Neuroscience – Seminars in Society and Neuroscience
This seminar, organized by Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, will explore the relationship between theory and evidence in the field of neuroscience. The speakers will provide their perspectives from a wide range of fields and disciplines including neurology, psychiatry, philosophy, and economics.
Find out more »Drawing Workshop at Grey Art Gallery: Picturing the Brain
In this hands-on workshop, participants will follow in Cajal’s footsteps, viewing brain-tissue samples through microscopes and rendering what they see. Led by Heather McKellar, Senior Manager of Education and Outreach Program, Neuroscience Institute at NYU Langone Health.
Find out more »Helena Hansen – White Opioids: Race in the War on Drugs that Wasn’t
This talk reports on a multi-year study that begins to answer the question of how the current "opioid crisis" became white. Interviews and observations of addiction scientists, pharmaceutical executives, policy makers, physicians and patients point to a convergence of hidden racial ideology in neuroscience, biotechnology development, drug regulation, marketing and media that has led to the current symbolism and demographic distribution of opioid overdose.
Find out more »Esteban Calvo – From Cells to Society: Rethinking Public Policy in a Changing World
The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance. This event is moderated by Ursula Staudinger.
Find out more »Talks Progress Administration: Everything Is Hallucinated
In the age of fake news, Virtual Reality, tailored Facebook feeds, and Photoshop, it can be hard to tell what's real. Neuroscience, perception, and illusion collide in this exploration of how our individual realities are not always what they seem.
Find out more »Neuroculture: Dual Affinities – 4 Artists who Study the Brain
A writer studying the science of dog-human relationships, a musician studying bird-song, a director studying visual processing, and a choreographer studying Parkinson’s Disease – are neuroscience and the arts natural bed-fellows?
Find out more »Talks Progress Administration: The Time-Traveling Brain
Memories of individual moments can allow us to travel into the past and imagine the future. Could they also be what make us human? Paula Croxson (Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine) digs deep into her research to hunt for clues, document crime scenes, and push forward the frontiers of science to find what makes episodic memory unique. This edition of Talks Progress Administration is performed by Paula Croxson and directed by Mark Kennedy-McClellan.
Find out more »Pregame Your Brain: Your Brain on Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll
Let the enthusiastic working scientists from BraiNY dazzle you with informative, hands- on activities that will teach you about the crazy neurobiology that gets you hot for sex, hooked on drugs, and groovy about the rhythms of music in your brain.
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