Serendip is an independent site partnering with faculty at multiple colleges and universities around the world. Happy exploring!

Home ›

Neural and Behavioral Sciences course

Paul Grobstein's picture

Brain and Education

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 11:36am

Welcome to the on-line forum associated with the 2008 senior seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.  Its a way to keep conversations going between course meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our conversations available to other who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them.  

Thoughts this week about 

Paul Grobstein's picture

Diversity: beyond issues of fairness?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 9:08am

Welcome to the on-line forum associated with the 2008 senior seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Its a way to keep conversations going between course meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our conversations available to other who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them.

Thoughts this week about

Paul Grobstein's picture

NBS seminar - "broken brains"?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 9:32pm

Welcome to the on-line forum associated with the 2008 senior seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.  Its a way to keep conversations going between course meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our conversations available to other who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them.  

Thoughts this week about 

Paul Grobstein's picture

NBS - Getting started

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 4:01pm
Welcome to the on-line forum associated with the 2008 senior seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.  Its a way to keep conversations going between course meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our conversations available to other who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them.  To get started, perhaps  few words about who you are, what you bring to the conversation that may be different form others, and how you currently think research in neural and behavioral science is (or isn't) important for human well being generally?  If you need something to get your thoughts going about the last point, there's a summary of a recent meeting on the subject here, and

Brain, Behavior, and Human Well-Being

Senior Seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Spring 2008

 

"research on the brain, like nuclear physics and molecular genetics, creates both opportunities and risks for humanity sufficiently great so that special attention needs to be paid to them, both by researchers and by the public at large"

 

Syndicate content

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

What's New? Subscribe to Serendip Studio