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NACS Student Seminar Series |
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Purpose: |
Opportunity for NACS students to present to their peers in a judgment-free, constructive feedback environment. Anything from practice runs for formal presentations, to preliminary data presentations, to thesis project proposals are welcomed. It is a chance for the students to gain valuable experience in public speaking and to get feedback on their PowerPoint and presentation skills, as well as on their research. |
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Events: |
Various dates throughout each semester |
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Members: |
Alexia Nunez and d.r. Mawhinney (co-chairs), Ben Falk, Krystyna Orzechowski, Shannon Williams |
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Methods Workshop Planning |
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Purpose: |
Provide a neuro-centric take on how to use software and tools; Use our current resources, i.e. students & faculty, to accomplish this; Provide a causal environment for learning critical skills from others who think about similar questions/data; Give students the opportunity to teach others by leading and organizing sessions |
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Planned Event: |
Summer 2011 MATLAB Workshop |
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Members: |
Erika Hussey, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Alice Jackson, Katie Willis, Dave Logan, Ben Falk, Mark Saffer, Jonathan Simon (faculty), Dan Butts (faculty) |
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Website/NACS Wiki |
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Purpose: |
Spice up, update, and maintain the NACS website and NACS wiki; Institute web space for academic profiles for every student; Create a general database of resources (including NACS students’ publications, presentations, and dissertations; QE information; how-to’s for methodologies & equipment) |
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Planned Tasks: |
Development of a NACS wiki & Student profiles on the NACS website |
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Members: |
Erika Hussey, Matt Swierzbinski, Alice Jackson, Alexia Nunez |
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Professional Development |
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Purpose: |
Offer free workshops on a variety of professional development topics with a neuro-centric spin, which may not be offered by individual departments or the Graduate School; Use our own resources to accomplish this |
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Planned Event: |
Professional development seminar |
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Members: |
Amanda Chicoli, Erika Hussey |
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fMRI |
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Purpose: |
Work out the logistics of how the imaging center will operate for graduate students, including understanding scan time funding, scheduling, and general procedures; Develop and identify relevant fMRI training opportunities |
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Planned Tasks: |
fMRI workshop series |
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Members: |
Nuria Abdulsabur, Kristen Lin, Joanna Szczepanik |
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NACS Research |
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Purpose: |
Increase awareness of NACS student research initiatives within the NACS community; Provide a venue for students receive feedback about their research; Give students the opportunity to learn how to talk about their research to individuals outside of their discipline; Foster new collaborations among students cross-departmentally |
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Planned Events: |
NACS Research Day & NACS student reading group/ journal club |
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Members: |
Alexia Nunez, Andrew Venezia, Diego Elgueda, Anna Schlappal, Kristin Lin, Joanna Szczepanik, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Amanda Chicoli, Dan Bryden, Graham Marquart, Dave Logan, Ben Falk, Erika Hussey |
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NACS-fest |
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Purpose: |
Plan and organize the annual NACS graduate student recruitment day (occurring every February) |
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Members: |
Jens Herberholz and Tracy Riggins (faculty, co-chairs), Amanda Chicoli, Aminah Sheikh, Caitlin Baxter, Dan Bryden, Francisco Cervantes Constantino, Jeff Chrabaszcz, Krystyna Orzechowski, Matt Miller, Matt Swierzbinski, Shannon Williams |
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Colloquium |
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Purpose: |
Suggest and vote on invited speakers for the weekly seminar series; Take on hosting duties for the speaker |
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Members: |
Dave Logan, Vanessa Williams |
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Outreach |
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Purpose: |
Broadening access to interdisciplinary neuroscience research to local non-scientists |
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Planned Events: |
NACS Tent for Maryland Day, Brain Awareness Week, visits to local schools |
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Members: |
Amanda Chicoli (chair), Erika Hussey, Jeff Chrabaszcz, Katie Willis, Shannon Williams, Kathryn Yoo, undergraduate students from the Maryland Neuroscience Society |
