The Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program welcomes five new Assistant Professors. They epitomize the diversity of backgrounds and approaches in the Neurosciences. Two of the faculty members are in Biology, one in Psychological Brain Sciences, one in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and one in Communication Disorders. Each of them is recruiting PhD students for the coming year.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
IONs Director’s Channel – Memory is about the future, not the past.
–Paul S. Katz
Director of Neurosciences
The UMass Week of Memory and Forgetting has provided me with fresh ideas about the nature of memory and the nature of society itself. It was fitting to begin the week with a reception at the Institute of Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies that featured an address from the Chancellor, who very movingly reflected on the recent mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, surrounded by pictures of atrocities committed by the Nazis. The Provost reflected on Psalm 137, popularly known through the reggae song, “By the Rivers of Babylon”, and the meaning of how collective memory affects us and how we, in turn, change the meaning of the memory over time. Each of the speakers brought a unique viewpoint on memory and its relevance for our lives. Continue reading
New UMass Neuroscience Publications in Pubmed
Here are some of the latest neuroscience publications to appear in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).This is the result of a search for Search: “university of Massachusetts” AND Amherst AND neuroscience on Nov 5, 2018. Continue reading