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Community Neuroscience: How to Organize a Brain Fair

January 22, 2019 By in Brain Awareness Week, Events, Interview, science communication Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

The second episode of our new “Community Neuroscience” series is now up on the Dana Foundation YouTube channel! In this video, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives member Michael Burman, Ph.D., offers tips on how to organize a successful brain fair for the public. Burman is an associate professor at the University of New England (UNE), as well as Neuroscience K-12 Outreach Coordinator at its Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences.

Over the years, Burman has helped lead public outreach efforts to inspire his community about the brain. The hallmark activity at UNE is their annual Brain Fair, where more than 600 kids, teens, and adults can take part in interactive exhibits to learn about memory, the senses, addiction, brain injuries, and more. You can read more about him and his approach in this past Dana Foundation blog interview.


Stay tuned for next week’s video, which will feature an Emmy-award winning guest with advice on how to talk about neuroscience to elementary school kids.

2018 Brain Day at NYU

March 16, 2018 By in Aging, Alzheimer's disease, Brain Awareness Week, Events, Memory, Neuroeducation, successful aging & your brain Tags: , , , , , , 1 Comment
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Photo: Heather McKellar

New York University’s Brain Day at NYU Langone Health took place on Tuesday, March 13th, as part of BraiNY and the Dana Foundation’s long-standing collaboration to celebrate Brain Awareness Week! The event included a Brain Fair in the Farkas breezeway, where booths provided information on the brain, displayed models of brains to examine, and, of course, presented some real brains to hold, too. For those looking for a challenge, there was “Brain Jeopardy” for visitors to test their knowledge of the brain. This year, there was even a 3-D printer creating model of brain cells, including a Purkinje cell, a type of neuron found in the cerebral cortex that releases a neurotransmitter called GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)! Dana publications and materials were handed out to attendees, which included many high school students.

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Brain Day at NYU!

April 19, 2017 By in Aging, Brain Awareness Week, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, Dana publications, Events, Memory, successful aging & your brain Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

After being re-scheduled due to inclement weather, New York University’s Brain Day at NYU Langone Medical Center took place last Thursday, April 13th as part of BraiNY and the Dana Alliance’s celebration of Brain Awareness Week. The event included a Brain Fair in the breezeway where various booths demonstrated experiments and provided information on the brain. There were also models of brains to examine and play with, and some free Dana Alliance materials and publications, too!

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This year’s Brain Fair at NYU Langone Medical Center.

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Upcoming Brain Events in New York City

March 30, 2017 By in Aging, Brain Awareness Week, Brain Game, Children, Events, Mental health, Neuroeducation, successful aging & your brain Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

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This year’s Brain Awareness Week (BAW) was another success with over 850 registered events worldwide (including 42 countries and 44 states)! We spoke with BAW partners from Korea, Israel, and the US, and went to the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC to learn more about perception with their Brainwave series. For those of you living in the NYC area, if you weren’t able to attend any local events, it’s not too late!

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braiNY at World Science Festival

June 18, 2013 By in Children, Events, Web author: Special Guests Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

This blog post originally appeared on the braiNY website. braiNY seeks
to raise the public profile of brain science through the efforts of
neuroscientists coordinated by the Greater New York City chapter of the Society
for Neuroscience

Worms and jelly beans. It may seem difficult to find a connection between these two long-time favorites of small children and the study of the brain. But as visitors to the braiNY tent at the World Science Festival’s Ultimate Science Street Fair on June 2nd found out, both have the potential to be powerful tools of investigation.

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