The 9th annual Brain Day will be held at the Carnegie Museum in Crawfordsville on Saturday, October 28th from 1-4pm. This year’s theme is “The Science of Brains!”
Since 2009, Wabash faculty and students have partnered with the Carnegie Museum to lead an afternoon of brain-related activities for all ages. Like Brain Awareness Week, which is organized by the Society for Neuroscience, Brain Day is intended to demonstrate basic principles of brain function, and to help us all better appreciate and care for our brains. The Brain Day program is an annual event for children and families, with hands-on activities to demonstrate how our brains work. Faculty from Wabash’s Biology (Dr. Heidi Walsh) and Psychology (Drs. Karen Gunther and Neil Schmitzer-Torbert) departments will be joined by several Wabash students and other volunteers to lead the event.
With generous funding through the Indiana Humanities “One State / One Story: Frankenstein,”* we will be bringing in a new experiments in mind control and upgrading your taste buds! And, several favorite activities will be back, such as the “remote-controlled” cockroach and lots of brains!
For more information, you can visit our event on Facbook, or visit us on the Wabash Psychology and the Carnegie Museum pages!
*Note: Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Brain Day program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
