Campers will participate in hands-on demonstrations with WVU faculty and graduate students in areas like neuroanatomy, studying the effects of light at night, impacts of stroke, and motion capture computer simulations of the body.
WHO: Nearly 20 high school students in 11th and 12th grades
WHAT: WVU Brain Camp, hosted by the WVU School of Medicine’s Neuroscience Department and the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
WHEN: Monday (July 15) – Friday (July 19)
WHERE: Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Center, WVU Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, with the exception of the Friday lab tours.
BEST FILMING OPPORTUNITIES:
- Monday, July 15
- 4 p.m., Neuron Communication
- Tuesday, July 16
- 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Neuroimaging
- 2 – 3 p.m., Backyard Brains
- Wednesday, July 17
- 9 – 10 a.m., Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute demonstrations
- 3 – 4 p.m., Research lab demonstrations
- Thursday, July 18
- 10 – 11 a.m., Backyard Brains
- 2 – 3 p.m., Motion Capture
- Friday, July 19
- 10 – 11 a.m., Research lab tours in the Life Sciences Building, downtown campus
About the Camp:
Campers will participate in hands-on demonstrations with WVU faculty and graduate students in areas like neuroanatomy, studying the effects of light at night, impacts of stroke, and motion capture computer simulations of the body.
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CONTACT: Cassie
Thomas
WVU School of Medicine
304.293.3412; cassie.thomas@hsc.wvu.edu
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