K-12 Education
Southern California high schoolers form youth neuroscience association to grow and give back
Southern California high schoolers form youth neuroscience association to grow and give back “How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos?” – V.S. Ramachandran Visit the SCYNA website to find out more: cnlm.uci.edu/SCYNA…
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CNLM Graduate Students Launch International #BlackInNeuroWeek – Begins July 28
CNLM Graduate Students Launch International #BlackInNeuroWeek – Begins July 27 Graduate students Angeline Dukes and Elena Dominguez pose together at a CNLM event. When graduate students Angeline Dukes and Elena Dominguez started their doctoral careers, they found themselves as the only two Black people in their department. Coming to UCI, they knew they would face…
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital Orange County (CHOC) Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3)
Each year, we host the Children’s Hospital Orange County (CHOC) Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) summer interns at the UCI CNLM for hands-on neuroscience demonstrations, lab tours and neuroscience career panels. This year the interns visited virtually from the comfort of their homes! A group of 9 CNLM Ambassadors led by the K-12 Programming committee chairs…
Read MoreUCI Brain Camp Student Selected to Present Research at International Conference
UCI Brain Camp Student Selected to Present Research at International Conference Siddhant learns how to mount a specimen on a microscope slide. Many High School sophomores are eager to get their driver’s license so they can begin navigating the roads around them. Not Siddhant Karmali. This rising sophomore at Stanford Online High School is more…
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2020 Irvine Brain Bee Inspires Teens to Pursue Brain Science Careers
2020 Irvine Brain Bee Inspires Teens to Pursue Brain Science Careers By Zahara Mary Kelly Keulen More than fifty high school students gathered at UCI on February 8th to test their knowledge of neuroscience at the 2020 Irvine Brain Bee. This is the second time that UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and…
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UCI Brain Camp prepares children for careers in science
UCI Brain Camp prepares children for careers in science This summer, 35 middle and high school students spent 2 weeks at UCI participating in a one-of-a-kind immersive neuroscience camp. UCI Brain Camp, founded and directed by Manuella Yassa of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, is one of only a handful of…
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