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2011 - 2012 Report to the Community

We are pleased to offer the 2011 / 2012 Report to the Community. This annual publications highlights just a few examples of the progress being made by the over 400 scientists and students within our institute. To request a copy of the most recent publication, or click to download this year's edition, or previous editions of the Report to the Community.

Margarete Wuensche Memorial Lecture: April 26, 2013

Submitted by kelly.cook on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 15:10.

The HBI is pleased to host the tenth annual Margarete Wuensche Memorial Lecture: Neuroscience and Society on Friday, April 26, 2013. This year's guest speaker is Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Gazzaniga will present Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain.

Please RSVP by April 12, 2013 to hbieduc [at] ucalgary [dot] ca

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6th Annual Calgary Brain Bee

Submitted by kelly.cook on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 14:17.

The HBI was pleased to host the 6th Annual Calgary Brain Bee on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. After 14 rounds of intense competition, a winner was decided: congratulations to Andrew Kim!

Andrew, a grade 11 students from Bishop Carrol High School in Calgary, has won an iPad mini and an expenses-paid trip to the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee on June 1, 2013 at McMaster University. 

Second place and a $100 Chapters gift certificate went to Kate Tan, a grade 10 students from Bishop Grandin. 

Thank you to all contestants, judges and spectators for making the 6th Annual Calgary Brain Bee a success. We hope to see you again next year!

Undergrad felt ‘really pulled’ to investigate nervous system

Submitted by Communications on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 15:13.

Kayla Baker hadn’t even heard of the enteric nervous system when Dr. Keith Sharkey, professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Deputy Director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, came to speak to her Neuroscience 201 class.