Tucson, Arizona – April 1, 2014 – Did you miss some or all of the popular University of Arizona College of Science Spring Lecture Series: The Evolving Brain? If so, you can watch for the first time or revisit all six lectures online at education.azpm.org/azconnection.
The six lectures were recorded between February 10 and March 17 at the UA’s Centennial Hall. For more information about the lecture series, visit cos.arizona.edu/connections/evolving-brain.
Lecture 1: Time Traveling: What Our Brains Share with Beetle Brains Nicholas J. Strausfeld, Ph.D., Director, Center for Insect Science and Regents’ Professor of Neuroscience, University of Arizona
Lecture 2: A Window into the Brain: Viewed through the Evolution of MRI Technology Diego R. Martin, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Medical Imaging and Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine
Lecture 3: The Evolution of Modern Neurosurgery: A History of Trial and Error, Success and Failure G. Michael Lemole, Jr., M.D., Chief, Division of Neurosurgery and Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine
Lecture 4: The Literate Brain Pélagie M. Beeson, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, University of Arizona
Lecture 5: The Ancestors in Our Brain Katalin M. Gothard, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology, Neurobiology, and the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona
Lecture 6: More Perfect Than We Think William Bialek, PhD, John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, Princeton University
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