Courses

Explore the organizational structure of the vertebrate nervous system with relevant terminology and methods.

Oral presentations, and critical discussion of graduate students’ research in progress.

Neurobiologists present research in progress and have a closed session with graduate students in neurobiology

DON JUAN - ... will you not agree with me further that Life has not measured the success of its attempts at godhead by the beauty or bodily perfection of the result, since in both these respects the birds ... are so extraordinarily superior, with their power of flight and their lovely plumage, and, may I add, the touching poetry of their loves and nestings, that it is inconceivable that Life, having once produced them, should, if love and beauty were her object, start off on another line and labor at the clumsy elephant and the hideous ape, whose grandchildren we are?

THE DEVIL - You conclude, then, that Life was driving at clumsiness and ugliness?

DON JUAN - No, perverse devil that you are, a thousand times no. Life was driving at brains - at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.

Don Juan in Hell

George Bernard Shaw