Neuroscience Lecture Series
The Neuroscience Program and Club presents a series of lectures every spring and fall semester, exploring current neuroscience research, applications and career opportunities. Weber State faculty also offer workshops on graduate school preparation. Lectures are free and open to all.
The Neuroscience Lecture Series is held in partnership with the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, the College of Science and the Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions.
2024 Spring Neuroscience Lecture Series
SPECIAL BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK LECTURE!
Friday, March 15, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lindquist Hall 202 or Zoom
How Air Pollution Affects our Brains
Dr. Courtney Henley
Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
Dr. Henley will briefly discuss the main types of criteria air pollutants that are measured and reported in our communities. She will then take a deep dive into how air pollution gets to our brains and what it does to our brains when it gets there. She will conclude the presentation with some tips about protecting ourselves from the harmful health effects of air pollution
Bio: Dr. Courtney Henley serves on the Board of Directors of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. Born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, she then attended Boston College and the University of Florida School of Medicine. During these years she spent a few glorious months snowboarding at Snowbird when the prophet's words moved her, “This is the place.” After completing anesthesiology residency at the University of Utah, Dr. Henley entered private practice in Salt Lake City. In 2006, Dr. Henley started her own family and discovered the truth about the outsized effects of Wasatch Front air pollution on young kids. She has been a contributor to UPHE and an advocate for the positive health effects of a healthy environment ever since.
All Majors Welcome! Pizza will be served!
ARCHIVED SPRING 2024 LECTURES
Using Psychophysiology to Explore Cognitive Processes within Psychopathology - Dr. Jacob Kraft
2/15/2024
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Creating Your Future - How to make opportunities with undergraduate research - Madisyn Carrington
1/24/24
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Fall 2023 Lectures
Moving beyond the dark arts of mu opioid receptors: Targeting the opioid system for depression, cocaine addiction, and pain.
11/17/23
Dr. Todd Hillhouse
Recording will be available soon
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Music, Microbes, and the Modern Era
10/26/23
Dr. Lynn White, Professor of Psychology, SUU
Recording will be available soon
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Tips and Tricks for Applying to Grad School
9/25/23
Dr. Timothy Black & Dr. Xin Zhao
Recording will be available soon
Archives
Spring 2023
- Intermountain Doctoral Education to Advance Students (IDEAS) in Neuroscience- Karen Wilcox, PhD
- The role of the Study Director in Preclinical drug development at a Contract Research Organization (CRO), Barak Gunter and Danielle Linihamrak (Recording not available)
- Executive and Mnemonic Fuctions of Human Posterior Cingulate Cortex - Lyndsey Aponik Gremillion.
- What's on your mind? The role of attention in social anxiety and depression - Matt Judah
Fall 2022
- Wiring the brain: the curious case of Kirrel3
- Tips and Tricks for Applying to Grad School
- Applying for REUs
- Alumni Panel
- Just Keep Swimming: What Zebrafish can teach us about brain regeneration.
Spring 2022
- Medical School Admissions & Beyond: How WSU's NS Helps Prepare you for Success in Medical School
- How to Become a Neuropsychologist: Advice from a former Wildcat
- Is it Getting Crowded in Here? The Neuropsychology of Brain Tumors
Spring 2021
- Tissue Engineering Models of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells to Replicate and Understand Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Pseudo-Diabetes in Alzheimer's Disease - The Fault is in Our "Stars"
Fall 2020
- The Importance of Mindfulness Practices in Times of Uncertainty: How Mindfulness Practice Reins in Mental Time Travel and Rumination
- Tips and Techniques for Applying to Graduate School
- The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Cupcakes to Smartphones, the Mechanism Underlying How Mindfulness Helps Change Habits and Overcome Addiction
- Empathy, Morality, and Fairness in the Brain: A Developmental Neuroscience Approach