Being a neuroscience major, research and lab work is a huge part of my academic workload. Once past the intro neuroscience courses, the upper-level courses expect students to be able to develop and test research hypotheses as a part of the labs. For example, in Neuroscience 110 last semester, also known as Developmental Neurobiology, I worked with zebrafish, or Danio rerio. The...
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Research
Gettin’ it at the Getty
This past Wednesday, the Neuroscience department sponsored a trip to the Getty Center to attend a lecture by Eric Kandel, an Austrian, Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist. He was there to give a lecture concerning his newly published book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which was incredibly...
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Big Shirt Wednesday
Though I am home now, I was on Pomona's campus over the summer in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, or SURP. I was doing physics research in Professor Whitaker's Bose-Einsten Condensate lab (essentially, a lot of lasers). But that's not the point of this post.
The point of this post is to celebrate and remember Big Shirt Wednesday. (more…)
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