Wanting to experience more neuroscience before our Annual Meeting? If you’re in the Chicago or Minneapolis areas, check out the following events!
13th Annual Glassman Symposium at Lake Forest College
Thursday, October 30 at 7 – 9 PM Central | Tarble Room, Brown Hall
Friday, October 31 at 4 – 6:30 PM Central | Calvin Durand Hall, Mohr Student Center
Join Lake Forest College’s chapter of Nu Rho Psi, Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, and neuroscience student organization Synapse for the final events of their Brain Awareness Week, concluding with the Robert B. Glassman Memorial Brain, Mind, and Behavior Symposium!
Thursday, October 30 will feature Faculty/Alumni talks from Dr. Naomi Wentworth, PhD candidate Aiden Houcek, Dr. Donald Meyer, PhD candidate Zoe Walts, and former Nu Rho Psi National President & Lake Forest College NRP advisor Dr. Shubhik DeBurman.
Friday, October 31 will feature an Undergraduate and Alumni Research Poster session, the Chicago Society for Neuroscience reception, and opening remarks from Lake Forest College’s chapter of Nu Rho Psi!
Contact Dr. Shubhik DeBurman at debburman@lakeforest.edu
Learn more here: https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/neuroscience/signature-programs/glassman-symposium
Brain Day at the University of Minnesota
November 1, 11 AM – 3 PM Central | Great Hall of Coffman Memorial Union on UMN Twin Cities Campus
Join the University of Minnesota for Brain Day!
“Brain Day is an interactive, engaging, and free event celebrating the brain at the University of Minnesota. This will be a family-friendly event packed with live demonstrations, exciting experiments, and hands-on activities for all ages! This year’s event will take place on Saturday November 1, 2025 from 11:00am to 3:00pm in the Great Hall of Coffman Memorial Union on the UMN Twin Cities campus.
What can I expect from Brain Day?
Brain Day will allow curious community members of all ages the chance to meet with real scientists while doing cool hands-on experiments and games. At this event you will:
Play fun games and activities, win prizes, participate in free raffles just for showing up, see yourself as a scientist, get free snacks, and learn about the really cool research being done at UMN
Upon entering the event, each attendee will get a Brain Passport that gets stamped at each booth they attend. After filling their passport, attendees can spin a prize wheel! Additionally, at the top of each hour, we will be doing free raffles for even more great prizes! There will also be a snack table for brain food to keep you going throughout the event.
Additional event information and Frequently Asked Questions can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9ksdW_GvoamsUsEBN9NfxzIsRahh-1O_suHicTIthw/edit?usp=sharing
If you have any questions about Brain Day, please reach out to neurobrainday@umn.edu.”
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