Caroline Newman (Honors College, Departmental Top Honors, William Aiken Fellow, Bishop Robert Smith Award, Alumni Medal, John Lewis Gervais Jr. Award, Phi Kappa Phi Merit Award, Outstanding Student in Psychology Award)
Kaushal Patel (Departmental Honors in Biology)
Kimberly Pomerantz
Guilherme Porto (Honors College, Departmental Honors in Biology)
Matthew Sherrier (Outstanding Student in Psychology)
Neuroscience Minors made out well at MUSC’s Student Research Day. Meghin Gilstrap received first place for her poster in the Undergraduate Division. Kyle Brown took first place for his oral presentation at the same event. They will also be presenting their work at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Poster Session at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this coming weekend. Congratulations Meghin and Kyle!
The Program in Neuroscience’s Study Abroad Program in Germany will be offered again next summer. Look for more information about the upcoming 2012 class by email and on Facebook. In the meantime see what this past summer’s students did in Munich and Berlin.
Our graduating Neuroscience Minors traveled to Wake Forest University to attend the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the SouthEast. Our students presented 11 posters and gave 2 talks at the conference. Lauren Ramsey and Maggie Diamond both received $200 competitive travel awards to present their Bachelor’s Essay research in the student platform session. Congratulations, Lauren and Maggie. Next year the Neuroscience Program will be taking our students to Francis Marion University for SYNAPSE 2012.
The Departments of Physics & Biology offer each fall semester the interdisciplinary class PHYS296/BIOL396 in Biophysical Modeling of Excitable Cells. This class counts as a Specialized Elective for the Neuroscience Minor, or could be used towards Physics BS/BA, or Biology BS/BA, or for the newly implemented Biomedical Physics Minor. Please consider registering for this exciting interdisciplinary offering. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Sorinel Oprisan.
It is not too soon to start thinking about your summer plans if you are interested in pursuing a research experience next summer. If you want to work at the College, try to identify a research mentor this fall since the deadlines for applying to these programs are early in the spring semester. National program deadlines are also in the early spring. Here are some places to start to exploring.
