<p>Does anyone have information or experience with the Neuroscience program at Macalester? Please share... thanks.</p>
<p>I'd love to know too......anyone???</p>
<p>Article that appeared in the Mac Weekly only last week.</p>
<p>The brains behind the brain: A closer look at Mac's neuroscience department
By: Kristin Riegel, Features Editor
Issue date: 3/14/08 Section: Features
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Media Credit: Liz Henry, flickr.com
Despite weighing only three pounds, the brain is the most complex structure in the human body.</p>
<p>Media Credit: Kristin Riegel
The more brains the better: Neuroscience students finalize events for Brain Awareness Week.</p>
<p>In the last ten years researchers have learned more about the brain than they did in the previous century; in my first ten minutes at the Brain Awareness Committee meeting I learned more about neuroscience and the "brains" behind it than I had in my year and a half at Mac.</p>
<p>Tucked away in a small conference room with gray walls and little room for more than a table and a few chairs, the Brain Awareness Committee met on Tuesday to discuss the final events for National Brain Awareness Week. The committee, comprised of students in the neuroscience department's senior seminar, has spent the last week trying to bring recognition to the most complex structure in the human body.</p>
<p>"You are your brain," said Tony Carr '08. "Your brain is everything you have ever thought, you have ever heard, you have ever seen."</p>
<p>With the idea that neuroscience is a perspective for viewing the world, as well as a "hard" science, ten students in the neuroscience department's senior seminar are reaching out to Macalester and the larger community. From "brain factoid" table tents in Caf</p>
<p>At Macalester, the neuroscience professors are very strong, and the field is one of development and growth at the college.</p>
<p>I met with the head of the Cognitive and Neuroscience Studies Program. I didn't know Macalester is a national leader in neuroscience education. I thought it looked like a great place and not just another program.</p>
<p>Thanks for that info. My daughter will be attending this fall.</p>