GPN Faculty/Student Spotlight
The White House announces this year’s recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
A huge congratulations to our innovative GPN Training Faculty!
Graduate Students Awarded Interdisciplinary Arts Grant!
Shen Ning & Jenny Klein: The NeuroArts Forum
The goal of the NeuroArts Forum is to traverse multiple disciplines to highlight the integration of
neuroscience with various artistic mediums. We hope to organize an event that will facilitate crosstalk and collaboration between faculty and students to investigate interdisciplinary topics or create scientifically inspired art/music/movements. Three different guest speakers representing the visual arts, music, and dance will be invited to speak at this event regarding the intersection of neuroscience and an artistic medium. This event will combine expertise from neuroscience and the arts in a unique event to showcase the innovative and interdisciplinary nature of BU’s research and educational approach. The invited speakers may cover a range of topics including: the basic neural mechanism underlying a form of art, the benefits of art/music/dance as an alternative therapy for neurological and psychiatric illnesses, and how art/music/dance reshapes the mind and cognition to empower and enrich work and personal life. It will build upon a strong collaboration between the Graduate Program for Neuroscience, which spans the Charles River and Medical Campus, and the College of Fine Arts. The aim is to provide new perspectives and inspiration for budding neuroscientists and artists.
This project will introduce BU students in multiple programs and departments that focus on neuroscience, such as the Graduate Program for Neuroscience, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Brain Behavior and Cognition, as well as all others who are interested to their area of expertise through very different mediums. Formal education in the sciences and the arts diverges at a relatively early stage in our current educational system. However, it should be recognized that mastering a scientific field is very much like the arts in that it requires same type of creativity, rigor, and persistence as mastering an art form. Through this event, I hope to help members of the BU community to see the synergy between science and the arts and connect students and faculty members at BU who have similar interests to establish future collaborations on unique and interdisciplinary projects.