On October 29, 2024, Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute held a symposium titled “The Neuroscience of Social Connections” at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center at 130th Street and Broadway.  The event featured faculty speakers and a series of presentations by PhD students highlighting the biological and psychological mechanisms of social interactions.

On October 17, Staff Writer Lorelei Gorton attended Music on the Brain, a conversation at the National Jazz Museum of Harlem on the emotional impacts of music with a Columbia neuroscientist and a local musician.

On October 10, Staff Writer Lorelei Gorton attended Where Ideas Come From: Thought, Movement, and the Brain, an interdisciplinary conversation that brought together experts in ballet and neuroscience.

Staff Writers Khushi Chhaya and Lorelei Gorton attended Sing for Science: Simpson’s Neuroscience, which featured Psychology professor Dr. Kevin Ochsner and voice actor Hank Azaria, who voiced Moe the Bartender on The Simpsons (and many other characters).

Choose neuroscience if you want to know why you forgot why you walked into a room.

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured, and enjoy your Thanksgiving break!

Last Wednesday, Bwog Writer Jessica Weinfeld attended the seminar “Innovation in Neurotechnology, Innovation in Governance?” where four speakers gave talks on the intersection of neurotechnology and government regulation.

Welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

On Thursday, April 21, Zuckerman Institute presented “Embracing Uncertainty: The Power of Curiosity and Exploration in Learning,” the fourth and final lecture of this year’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series.

As part of the weekly BME seminar series, Dr. Thomas Talavage gave a guest lecture on his research involving the study of concussions, CTE, and head injuries.

At the Zuckerman Institute on Thursday, researchers and Columbia professors Dr. Rudy Behnia and Dr. Shuran Song spoke about their respective fields of animal vision and computer perception, and how we can apply those ideas to neuroscience as a whole.

Hot off the press. Editor’s note: mentions of suicide and antisemitism.

Neuroscience major and deputy editor Vivian Zhou is super excited about the new Neuroscience department at Barnard and wants to tell you all about it!!!!

Have you ever wondered whether or not certain less genotypical traits such as mental illness, anxiety, or PTSD can have intergenerational effects? Deputy Editor Vivian Zhou is a Neuro major, so it was only appropriate that she went to cover the symposium on this topic. 

Earlier this evening, Columbia University announced the removal of Dr. Thomas Jessell, a prominent professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, as reported by the New York Times. Dr. Jessell is a renowned neuroscientist; his accolades include the Canada Gairdner International Award in 2012, the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience in 2008, and membership in […]