Brain Awareness Week 2005

Brain Awareness Week is a international effort put together by Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and The Society for Neuroscience to promote public awareness about the benefits and progress of brain research.

Special thanks to the following sponsors: The Omniplex, Society for Neuroscience, OU Health Sciences Center, The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, The Departments of Zoology , Physiology and Cell Biology, as well as Jelly Belly.

Brain Awareness Week at The University of Oklahoma is March 24-26, 2005.

The Oklahoma Brain Awareness Week exhibit is scheduled for March 24- 26, 2005 at the Omniplex Museum. Exhibits will include a hands on display of real human brains, microscope displays of neural cells, as well as select games and tests that show how the nervous system works. We also provided a number of educational stations to address issues ranging from brain trauma to the effects of drug abuse on brain function. Each school is encouraged to arrange through the Omniplex for a class trips to view this exhibit. You can find more information at their site and directions to the Omniplex here.

President
Dr. Regina M. Sullivan rsullivan@ou.edu

Dr. John Ash john-ash@ouhsc.edu

Undergraduate Student Coordinators

Lauren Lunday laurenlunday@ou.edu

Kenneth Pope kpope@ou.edu

The Oklahoma Chapter of The Society for Neuroscience will be going into middle schools to encourage and promote learning about the brain though the help of Brain Awareness Week. The middle school students will have the chance to build a science fair project that will hopefully spark their interests. Each middle school will have the opportunity to send three student science fair projects for exhibition during Brain Awareness Week at the Omniplex. The project should be a demonstration that is informative and geared towards understanding any aspect of the nervous system. The student projects should be selected from a preliminary Middle Schools Science Fair that follows the rules and guidelines outlined. Our goal is to encourage active learning about neuroscience and help students to develop the ability to communicate science-related information.