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Theres a new jewel on the St. Paul landscape, a facility that helps further develop the health-care corridor north of downtown.

HealthPartners innovative neuroscience center joins its two other facilities on Phalen Boulevard, as well as nearby Regions Hospital.

Monday was opening day for the $75 million facility, believed to be the largest freestanding neuroscience center in the Upper Midwest. Its intended to serve 50,000 patients a year, providing a distinct advantage to St. Paul and the east metro in the face of an aging population and spiraling numbers living with Alzheimers disease and dementia.

It brings neuroscience specialties together in one place, one that includes soothing colors and meaningful artwork in a physical layout intended to make visits easier for patients and their caregivers.

We werepleased to get an earlylook at the 130,000-square-foot building that will serve people with a range of neurological conditions, including stroke, brain tumors, spinal injuries and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Features include a state-of-the-art rehabilitation department and a research laboratory that handles about 40 projects a year, many of them related to Alzheimers.

Among sustainability features at the building site of a community open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 13 is one called daylight harvesting, whereby lights automatically adjust depending on the amount of sunshine coming through the windows.

Garbage-gate ruffled feathers in St. Paul this week and made its point.

Erich Mische, a St. Paul resident who workedin previous mayoral administrations, organized cleanup of a trash heap at 10th and Wacouta streets. The downtown site where homeless people had camped is the states responsibility, but the city should have been more assertive in dealing with the situation, Ricardo Cervantes, St. Pauls director of safety and inspections, acknowledged in a Pioneer Press report. The clean-up and protest included delivering garbage bags cleared from the site to City Hall.

On Twitter, Mayor Chris Coleman thanked the vols who spent their Sunday cleaning up the garbage, including Erich Mische and acknowledged that the accumulation of trash was unacceptable.

We can all do better, he said in another tweet, reminding folks about the St. Paul Parks cleanup day on April 22. The event brings people together between 9 and 11:30 a.m. to help beautify the city. Details on eight kick-offsites around townand registration information are at stpaul.gov/news/register-now-citywide-cleanup-april-22.

Weveappreciated over the years the work of the Minnesota office of theInstituteforJustice, dedicated to protecting what it describes as foundational rights of the American Dream: property rights, free speech, educational choice and economic liberty.

It did so this week when Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that would give a Minnesotan a chance to keep his or her vehicle after someone else is convicted of driving it while intoxicated, according to a Pioneer Press report. It notes that existing law allowed the vehicle to be forfeited even if the owner was not the driver.

Lee McGrath, the institutes senior legislative counsel and managing attorney here, told us this is the fourth reform enacted since the institute began working on the matter in 2009.

Gov. Dayton and the Legislature have taken an important step to address every Minnesotans right to an appropriate legal process, McGrath told us. The next step is to end civil forfeiture and replace it with the appropriate process, which is criminal forfeiture.

We found some numbers worth noting in last weeks State of the City address by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman:

Further, swiftly flow the years, Opinuendo sayeth not.

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The upcoming June ICX Summit boasts top leaders in customer experience speaking on a range of topics from CX strategy to Internet of Things, integration to measuring customer experience and return-on-investment.

That latter focus will be the subject of a panel featuring Albert Vita, director, strategy and insights for The Home Depot. The session, sponsored by Intel and moderated by Raj Maini, worldwide director of marketing for visual retail at Intel, promises insightful real-life information and best practices.

Vita will discuss metrics, benchmarks and tools retailers can use to determine if the retail experience is hitting the mark or falling below the bottom line.

Another session which will surely draw big attendance targets customer-facing robots and how early leaders such as Lowe's and the makers of Pepper, are making robots a real part of today's retail landscape. Sarah Furnari, VP of retail experience for BEHR, will share her insight and view of how such emerging technologies are playing a more valuable role each year.

Also on the agenda for the June 5-7 event, being held in Dallas, highlights on how to design the store with digital in mind. Phillip Raub, founder and CMO at b8ta, will speak on best approaches in integrating digital into the brick-and-mortar environment without overwhelming the store environment. The session, sponsored by NEC Display solutions, will be moderated by Richard Ventura, VP of business development and solutions at NEC Display Solutions of America.

For a deeper look at the agenda, click here and to register for what promises to be a valuable event, click here.

Topics: Associations / Events, Consumer Behavior, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Digital Signage, Display Technology, ICX Summit, In-Store Media, Marketing, Merchandising, Omnichannel / Multichannel, Online Retailing, Retail - Home Center, Store Design & Layout, Technology

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Meet Victoria Mousley. She is senior psychology and deaf studies double major, with a concentration in gender, sexuality, and womens studies. She wants to be a cognitive neuroscientist.

And with an education from Holy Cross, she can.

It all started four years ago when Mousley signed up for her first semester of courses and decided American Sign Language (ASL) sounded like a cool class to take.

I had no idea about deaf studies before Holy Cross, says Mousley. I had never taken a class in high school, or had any exposure to the Deaf community.

Fast forward two semesters of ASL classes and Mousley found herself copying down the address of Sue Philip, president of a non-profit for Deaf victims of domestic violence, and the Deaf woman she would be working for as a part of the community-based learning (CBL) component of her ASL class.

It was a day that probably changed my life, and I didnt know it at the time, says Mousley. The language courses at Holy Cross were important because I needed to be able to communicate, but the CBL experience was what made me fall in love with what I was doing in deaf studies. The meaning came out of engaging with the community, the history, the culture.

Mousleys weekly meetings with Philip doing administrative work like organizing, attending meetings and drafting minutes turned to more frequent visits and involvement beyond what was required for CBL, as Philip quickly became a mentor and Mousley realized her passion for the Deaf community. Mousley began working as a teaching assistant at The Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she became particularly interested in exploring deaf education and the disparities in education for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

While discovering new passions to bring back to Holy Cross, Mousley recalls, she was also stumbling upon new interests on the Hill some more surprising than others.

This is where the science comes in.

When I got to Holy Cross, I thought, This neuroscience thing sounds really scary and its probably not for me, says Mousley. Science was never really my thing in high school; I was fine at it, but I didnt love it.

But spring semester of her sophomore year, Mousley faced that fear head on in a class on the philosophy and neurobiology of the mind.

I was pretty intimidated when I first realized I had to take this class, and I definitely had no idea that I was going to end up loving it, says Mousley. I like to think I plan my life out in a way that gets me where I want to go, but there are people you meet like Professors Lawrence Cahoone and Alo Basu teaching this class, who change all of that.

Also enrolled in a psychology class on sensation and perception that same semester, all her different interests began to fit together.

Taking these classes together made me realize that the human experience as I was learning about the experiences of deaf people through my CBL was actually tied to all this stuff I was learning about the brain, she said. As I became more interested in cognitive neuroscience, I realized that my specific interest in education wasnt necessarily with teaching, but more with child development.

Mousleys interest in the intersection between deaf studies and neuroscience rose to a new level when she decided to spend a semester away at the worlds only liberal arts university for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. A semester at Gallaudet University, located in Washington, D.C., would be a full immersion experience and a true test of her ASL skills.

I was asking myself, Do I want to leave Holy Cross for a semester? Can I handle this with my signing? Am I ready to go? she remembers.

The answer was yes. Mousley took on five classes conducted in sign language and communicated exclusively in ASL while on campus, from ordering food in the cafeteria to addressing ID card problems. Mousley also had the opportunity to work with Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto, a famous cognitive neuroscientist and the Scientific Director of the Brain and Language Lab for Neuroimaging at Gallaudet University, which is dedicated to studying bilingualism, visual language, and reading.

It was here that her future goals specifically, becoming a cognitive neuroscientist began to crystalize.

I want to be someone who uses science and scientific methods to inform policy and concrete things that affect deaf and hard-of-hearing peoples lives and potentially childrens lives more broadly, she said.

In 2017 Mousley was selected as a Marshall Scholar, which will support her pursuit of masters degrees in language sciences and cognitive neuroscience research at University College London after graduation. In 2016, she was also awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a national award given to approximately 50 students who plan to pursue careers in public service.

As a senior, writing an honors thesis on the direct effects of stigma on the Deaf community and preparing for life after Holy Cross, Mousley thinks back on how all the pieces came together.

It was a lot of luck and great advising, combined with some amazing professors, says Mousley. I wouldnt have even understood that these intersections were happening if I didnt go to a liberal arts school where people were saying, This is also tied to this subject and to that one.

If you had told Mousley that she would be working towards becoming a cognitive neuroscientist studying sign language and deaf studies as a first-year student, she probably would not have believed you.

But now, she wouldnt doubt you for a second.

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The idea that neuroscience is rediscovering the soul is, to most scientists and philosophers, nothing short of outrageous. Of course it is not.

But the widespread, adverse, knee-jerk attitude presupposes the old-fashioned definition of the soul the ethereal, immaterial entity that somehow encapsulates your essence. Surely, this kind of supernatural mumbo-jumbo has no place in modern science. And I agree. The Cartesian separation of body and soul, the res extensa (matter stuff) vs. res cogitans (mind stuff) has long been discarded as untenable in a strictly materialistic description of natural phenomena.

After all, how would something immaterial interact with something material without any exchange of energy? And how would something immaterial whatever that means somehow maintain the essence of who you are beyond your bodily existence?

So, this kind of immaterial soul really presents problems for science, although, as pointed out here recently by Adam Frank, the scientific understanding of matter is not without its challenges.

But what if we revisit the definition of soul, abandoning its canonical meaning as the "spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal" for something more modern? What if we consider your soul as the sum total of your neurocognitive essence, your very specific brain signature, the unique neuronal connections, synapses, and flow of neurotransmitters that makes you you?

Just as we have unique fingerprints, our brains, their "connectome," are also unique. Surely, all brains are made of the same stuff, but wired in very individual ways. Recall that our brains are plastic, and mold themselves according to environmental and emotional inputs the stories of our lives. To this, we must add our bodies and their relation to our brains. For the mind is embodied, the self not an isolated property of what's inside your cranium but an emergent property of your whole mind-body integration as mapped through the complex highways of nerves interlocking all of you.

Consider, then, the modern soul as the unique neuronal-synaptic signature integrating brain and body through a complex electrochemical flow of neurotransmitters. Each person has one, and they are all different. That is, or can be considered, your essence from a materialist perspective.

Once we have this definition of the soul, the next question is inevitable. Can all this be reduced to information, such as to be replicated or uploaded into other-than-you substrates? That is, can we obtain sufficient information about this brain-body map so as to replicate it in other devices, be they machines or cloned biological replicas of your body? This would be, if technologically possible, the scientific equivalent of reincarnation, or of the long-sought redemption from the flesh an idea that is at least as old as organized religions in the East and West (as Mark O'Donnell remarked in his book To Be a Machine, reviewed here).

Well, depending on who you talk to, this final transcendence of human into information is either around the corner a logical step in our evolution or an impossibility a mad dream of people who can't accept the inevitability of death, the transhumanist crowd.

Silicon Valley is taking very seriously the possibility that aging is a technological problem that can be hacked. For example, the website of Google's company Calico states right upfront that its mission is to tackle "aging, one of life's greatest mysteries." The company's approach is more one of prolonging life than of uploading yourself somewhere else, but in the end the key word that unites the different approaches is information. If life is a code written genetically, it can be dealt with, including the instructions for aging. Another Google company, DeepMind, is bent on cracking AI: "Solve intelligence to make the world a better place." Google is approaching the problem of death from both a genetic and a computational perspective. They clearly complement one another. Google is not alone, of course. There are many other companies working on similar projects and research. The race is on.

What to make of this? It's inevitable that science will be at the forefront of the quest to prolong or upload life. This is not a bad thing, per se, given that the knowledge this research will surely produce will open new pathways to healthier, longer lives. Accepting death is a hard pill to swallow, the hardest. As I wrote elsewhere, referring to my family in this context: "Every day I have to love them is one less day I have to love them."

However, the possibility of extending life indefinitely also raises all sorts of moral and social questions, and possibly a lot of pain and loss. The curse of the immortal is to lose everyone he loves. Unless everyone jumps in. But how reasonable is this assumption? Who will benefit from these technologies? The very wealthy? The select few that have access to them? What of the rest of society? Would we end up creating a dual species of beings, humans and transhuman demi-gods? Would there be mutual tolerance and respect? I can imagine all sorts of sci-fi scenarios unfolding, utopic and dystopic.

Meanwhile, while the quest for immortality continues, what we can do is eat well, exercise, and try to live a life of meaning, leaving the world a better place than how we found it. Or, perhaps, for some in the future, never leaving it at all.

Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and writer and a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is the director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, co-founder of 13.7 and an active promoter of science to the general public. His latest book is The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. You can keep up with Marcelo on Facebook and Twitter: @mgleiser

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The idea that neuroscience is rediscovering the soul is, to most scientists and philosophers, nothing short of outrageous. Of course it is not.

But the widespread, adverse, knee-jerk attitude presupposes the old-fashioned definition of the soul the ethereal, immaterial entity that somehow encapsulates your essence. Surely, this kind of supernatural mumbo-jumbo has no place in modern science. And I agree. The Cartesian separation of body and soul, the res extensa (matter stuff) vs. res cogitans (mind stuff) has long been discarded as untenable in a strictly materialistic description of natural phenomena.

After all, how would something immaterial interact with something material without any exchange of energy? And how would something immaterial whatever that means somehow maintain the essence of who you are beyond your bodily existence?

So, this kind of immaterial soul really presents problems for science, although, as pointed out here recently by Adam Frank, the scientific understanding of matter is not without its challenges.

But what if we revisit the definition of soul, abandoning its canonical meaning as the "spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal" for something more modern? What if we consider your soul as the sum total of your neurocognitive essence, your very specific brain signature, the unique neuronal connections, synapses, and flow of neurotransmitters that makes you you?

Just as we have unique fingerprints, our brains, their "connectome," are also unique. Surely, all brains are made of the same stuff, but wired in very individual ways. Recall that our brains are plastic, and mold themselves according to environmental and emotional inputs the stories of our lives. To this, we must add our bodies and their relation to our brains. For the mind is embodied, the self not an isolated property of what's inside your cranium but an emergent property of your whole mind-body integration as mapped through the complex highways of nerves interlocking all of you.

Consider, then, the modern soul as the unique neuronal-synaptic signature integrating brain and body through a complex electrochemical flow of neurotransmitters. Each person has one, and they are all different. That is, or can be considered, your essence from a materialist perspective.

Once we have this definition of the soul, the next question is inevitable. Can all this be reduced to information, such as to be replicated or uploaded into other-than-you substrates? That is, can we obtain sufficient information about this brain-body map so as to replicate it in other devices, be they machines or cloned biological replicas of your body? This would be, if technologically possible, the scientific equivalent of reincarnation, or of the long-sought redemption from the flesh an idea that is at least as old as organized religions in the East and West (as Mark O'Donnell remarked in his book To Be a Machine, reviewed here).

Well, depending on who you talk to, this final transcendence of human into information is either around the corner a logical step in our evolution or an impossibility a mad dream of people who can't accept the inevitability of death, the transhumanist crowd.

Silicon Valley is taking very seriously the possibility that aging is a technological problem that can be hacked. For example, the website of Google's company Calico states right upfront that its mission is to tackle "aging, one of life's greatest mysteries." The company's approach is more one of prolonging life than of uploading yourself somewhere else, but in the end the key word that unites the different approaches is information. If life is a code written genetically, it can be dealt with, including the instructions for aging. Another Google company, DeepMind, is bent on cracking AI: "Solve intelligence to make the world a better place." Google is approaching the problem of death from both a genetic and a computational perspective. They clearly complement one another. Google is not alone, of course. There are many other companies working on similar projects and research. The race is on.

What to make of this? It's inevitable that science will be at the forefront of the quest to prolong or upload life. This is not a bad thing, per se, given that the knowledge this research will surely produce will open new pathways to healthier, longer lives. Accepting death is a hard pill to swallow, the hardest. As I wrote elsewhere, referring to my family in this context: "Every day I have to love them is one less day I have to love them."

However, the possibility of extending life indefinitely also raises all sorts of moral and social questions, and possibly a lot of pain and loss. The curse of the immortal is to lose everyone he loves. Unless everyone jumps in. But how reasonable is this assumption? Who will benefit from these technologies? The very wealthy? The select few that have access to them? What of the rest of society? Would we end up creating a dual species of beings, humans and transhuman demi-gods? Would there be mutual tolerance and respect? I can imagine all sorts of sci-fi scenarios unfolding, utopic and dystopic.

Meanwhile, while the quest for immortality continues, what we can do is eat well, exercise, and try to live a life of meaning, leaving the world a better place than how we found it. Or, perhaps, for some in the future, never leaving it at all.

Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and writer and a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is the director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, co-founder of 13.7 and an active promoter of science to the general public. His latest book is The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. You can keep up with Marcelo on Facebook and Twitter: @mgleiser

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On Friday afternoon, members of Rowans College of Science &Mathematics and College of Communication and Creative Arts met in the Rowan Hall Auditorium to continue an ongoing lecture series from the college of Science and Mathematics. They gathered to hear artist Greg Dunn give a talk about how he combined his love of neuroscience with his affinity for art.

Dunn received a doctoratein neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania to create screen paintings by combining images of the brain and its parts with traditional Japanese minimalist art. During the lecture, Dunn talked about the process of creating a large scale model of the brain which when viewed under lights created the illusion of synapses and neurons firing.

Bryan Stites, a senior psychology major, was one attendee.He said that he had seen some of Dunns work before, and was eager for an opportunity to hear the artist speak.

I knew about Dunns work from Doctor [Lisa] Abrams, whos a professor in the psych department, Stites said. We went together to the Franklin Institute to see the exhibit when it was first released. I was fascinated with it and being able to hear him speak about it was even better.

During the presentation, Dunn said that the common images of the brain in popular culture dont often mesh with the actual science behind the studies of it. He also said that there is often a disconnect with art and science being viewed as separate entities. So for the artwork he creates, Dunn said that he looks to meld art and science in a way that makes them both work together.

Dunn also said that his love of the arts went back many years, and that hes had a fixation on one style in particular.

I had made art for album cover for many years. That was very different than this, but still somewhat Asian-inspired, Dunn said. I really like the negative space and the contrast in lines in Asian art. I pretty much started out and stuck with this, although Ive evolved into a much more complex direction than I was at when I first started this.

And as for why he chose the brain over other parts of the body to portray, Dunn said it just felt like the right choice.

Im interested in the brain from a practical standpoint, from a biological standpoint, from an experiential standpoint, he said. I have a fascination with it on so many levels, that it just seems like the natural kind of niche for me.

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A local high school student took second place at the USA National Brain Bee Championship last month.

Sophomore Aarthi Vijayakumar, of Blaine, represented the Minnesota chapter at the national neuroscience championship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. She won the state level competition earlier this school year, conducted by theDepartment of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.

Winners from 51 competitions in 30 states came to test their knowledge of the human brain at the annual national competition. Topics included intelligence, emotions, memory, sleep, vision, hearing, sensations, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, schizophrenia, addictions and brain research. The competition involved a neuroanatomy laboratory practical exam with real human brains, patient diagnosis with patient actors, neurohistology, and brain MRI imaging identification.

The winner was from Arkansas and advanced to the World Brain Bee Championship. Aarthi placed second by a very narrow margin, said her mom Devi.

I hope this will inspire a lot more young kids in the Twin Cities community to pursue STEM education, as well as understand that these things are not too far beyond reach with hard work, she noted.

Currently, there are about 200 Brain Bee chapters in about 40 countries in six continents. Dr. Norbert Myslinski founded the International Brain Bee eighteen years ago.

Its purpose is to motivate young students to learn about the human brain and inspire them to seek careers in the basic and clinical neurosciences to help treat and find cures for brain disorders, he stated. We build better brains to fight brain disorders.

The competition is sponsored by the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences of the University of Maryland Dental School.

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On Friday, March 31, elementary school students without any previousexposure to the field of neuroscience were guided in constructinga network of neurons using pipe cleaners. The exercise was part of an effort by University students to expose students at the Christina Seix Academy to a field often excluded to more privileged environments.

The Princeton Neuroscience Network, a student-led group that fosters greater awareness and appreciation for neuroscience, held its first major outreach event on March 31. The fourth-grade students from Christina Seix Academy, a school founded to provide education to children from low-income, single-parent households, were brought to the Princeton NeuroscienceInstitute to engage in a series of activitiesabout science and the brain during the University's first Neuroscience Fair.

"I liked it a lot. It taught us a lot of things we didn't know before. We went in not knowing a lot about the brain, but we came out knowing much more," said Serenity Davis, a student at Christina Seix.

Heads of the PNN Outreach Committee Chi-Chi Azoba '18 and Selam Zenebe-Gete '18 explained that it was important to them as STEM students to spread awareness of neuroscience and to share the University's many resources.

As women of color, getting students to come here and see us perform as student leaders has been empowering Azoba explained.

Azoba and Zenebe-Gete, both juniors concentrating in Molecular Biology at the University, have been planning this event since their freshman year, when they started the Outreach Committee of Princeton Neuroscience Network after meeting one of PNNs co-founders, Seong Jang 18.

We had this vision freshman year to expose younger students to neuroscience since neuroscience had never been introduced to us as children, Azoba noted.

Since its creation two years ago, PNN has been engaging with University students through study breaks, movie screenings with professors, and research symposiums. According to Jang, however, the group felt that it was time for PNN to engagewith a wider community.

We want PNN to grow from all branches, explained Jang, referring to PNNs events, research, and outreach efforts.

Jang hopes that through outreach efforts such as this fair, those interested in neuroscience at the University can enhance their experiences while positively impacting the surrounding community.

Consisting of a series of blocks or activities the children rotated through, the Neuroscience Fair engaged students in a variety of ways as they learned about the different parts of the brain, their functions, and how these parts of the brain affect perception and understanding. For example, one block allowed the children to watch Princeton students dissect a sheep brain, during whichPNN volunteers showed them the functions of each part of the brain. Another block allowed the children to monitor the electrical activity of muscles using a Muscle SpikerBox.

Students of Christina Seix Academy left the University not only with a stronger understanding of the brain and of the field of neuroscience, but with an appreciation for science and a desire to pursue neuroscience in the future. In addition, exposure to the University community delighted Academy students, who expressed their fascination withthe campus.

"Have you seen the movie "Groundhog Day"? I wish today was my groundhog day so I could come here every day!" said Academy student Justin Hogue.

Some children, according to teachers at the academy, have even set goals since their visitof becoming students at the University someday.

"The Neuroscience Fair sparked something in our students. It made them curious and excited to learn more about their brain and learning, " said Nicole Morillo, a teacher at Christina Seix.

"The students absolutely loved every minute of the Neuroscience Fair. It broadened their understanding and increased their enthusiasm about science," said Ashley Umberger, another teacher at the Academy.

Seeing their project come to fruition with such success, PNN leaders said they encourage and are optimistic about their organizationalgoals. One of these goals is to hold a conference here at the University that willbring together professors, students, and researchers from other institutions who are interested in neuroscience.

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WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) A group of local college students is hoping to encourage the next generation to pursue career fields in science. The teenagers took a break from their own classroom and Eyewitness News Education Reporter Crystal Cranmore was there as they took over another class at a Wilkes-Barre Elementary School

At first glance, it may look like an art lesson...But students at heights elementary school in Wilkes-Barre are actually learning the basics of neuroscience. Wilkes University Neuroscience students traded their own textbooks for the day to teach these children who regularly attend the Luzerne County SHINE after school program.

"Even if they dont fully grasp the concepts, we feel the exposure at an early age will push them toward stem fields " Leana Pande, a Wilkes University Student told Eyewitness News

The first through fourth graders explored the functions of the brain. They made these caps that identify the different sections of the brain. The group seemed to catch on.

"We learned about the parietal lobe..is the sensory information which means help your body determine and react to whats going on if you get surprised. " Explained Quiana Gamble

The students used pipe cleaners to learn about neurons and how they connect to communicate information

SHINE educators try to incorporate project based - or hands learning during their after school lessons to ensure the children are having fun *while* learning. SHINE educators also try to incorporate science, technology, engineering, art, and math -o r STEAM for short - in all of their classes.

Carol Nicholas is the Director of Luzerne County SHINE program, she explained " When we can expose things like this they say we can work in neuroscience.. if we can spark that interest early on, we can start to groom the college freshman of tomorrow"

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