Brain Awareness Week at Cincinnati Museum Center
In honor of Brain Awareness Week, the UC Neuroscience Graduate Program held a community outreach program at the Cincinnati Museum Center March 14-16, 2012. The exhibit, staffed by neuroscience faculty and graduate students, offered special displays and demonstrations in the Union Terminal rotunda.
Visitors got the chance to see a human brain up close, plus learn about odor identification, EEG, brain-computer interface and more.
Participants included (front, left to right) Matt Smith, Joe Korfhagen, Rachel Oberst, Jessica McKlveen, Nash Shahana and (rear) Isaiah Rolle.
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