Brain Awareness Week: Celebrating the Brain Around the World
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Discovering the Brain at BAW 2017 A volunteer helps children take selfies while holding a brain model at the Miami Chapter's Brain Fair on March 11. Photo courtesy of Eric Weiss focallength 18 flash 16 cameramake Canon height 3318 fnumber 3.5 exposuretime 0.0333333351 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop Ligh originaldate 3/12/2016 5:50:06 PM width 3823 cameramodel Canon EOS 60D A young student learns about spinal cord anatomy at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis exhibit at the Miami Brain Fair. Photo courtesy of Coleen Atkins A young student learns about spinal cord anatomy at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis exhibit at the Miami Brain Fair. Photo courtesy of Coleen Atkins focallength 4.15 flash 24 cameramake Apple height 2448 fnumber 2.2 exposuretime 0.0333333351 dir : 219 alt : 3 lat : 25.715781 long : -80.279122 orientation 1 camerasoftware Microsoft Windows Ph originaldate 3/12/2016 5:03:05 PM width 3264 cameramodel iPhone 6 A young event attendee gets tested for two-point sensory discrimination and mapping of the sensory homunculus at the Miami Chapter's BAW event. Photo courtesy of Coleen Atkins focallength 4.15 flash 24 cameramake Apple height 2448 fnumber 2.2 exposuretime 0.0416666679 dir : 159 alt : 3 lat : 25.715906 long : -80.279053 orientation 1 camerasoftware 9.2.1 originaldate 3/12/2016 8:08:58 PM width 3264 cameramodel iPhone 6 Atlanta-area neuroscience graduate students present a range of mammalian brains to high school students during a break at the Atlanta Regional Brain Bee competition on February 4. Photo courtesy of Morgan Mosley originaldate 1/1/0001 6:00:00 AM width 2048 height 1365 Georgia State University graduate students discuss the adolescent brain with a high school student attending the Atlanta Brain Bee on February 4. Photo courtesy of Morgan Mosley originaldate 1/1/0001 6:00:00 AM width 2048 height 1365 Atlanta neuroscience graduate students share optical illusions (foreground) and comparative vertebrate brains (background) with Brain Bee participants and their family members on February 4. Photo courtesy of Morgan Mosley originaldate 1/1/0001 6:00:00 AM width 1365 height 2048 At the Brain Days event at the Kentucky Science Center on March 24-25, University of Louisville neurosurgeons demonstrated how brain surgery and deep brain stimulation works for treating Parkinson’s disease. Photo courtesy of Kristofer Rau focallength 4.15 flash 16 cameramake Apple height 1350 fnumber 2.2 exposuretime 0.06666667 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS5 originaldate 3/25/2017 5:07:32 PM width 1800 cameramodel iPhone 6s Plus A volunteer describes the functions of parts of the human brain at the Brain Days event at the Kentucky Science Center. Attendees viewed brains and nervous systems from humans, sheep, mice, rats, and other animals. Photo courtesy of Kristofer Rau focallength 4.15 flash 16 cameramake Apple height 1800 fnumber 2.2 exposuretime 0.06666667 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS5 originaldate 3/25/2017 5:17:07 PM width 1350 cameramodel iPhone 6s Plus Volunteers from the University of Louisville Anthropology Department measure brain capacities in hominid casts at the Brains of our Ancestors station at the Kentucky Science Center. Photo courtesy of Kristofer Rau focallength 4.15 flash 16 cameramake Apple height 1800 fnumber 2.2 exposuretime 0.06666667 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS5 originaldate 3/25/2017 7:08:33 PM width 1350 cameramodel iPhone 6s Plus Visitors attend the March 3 opening reception of Neurocraft, an exhibition of neuroscience-themed art at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Photo courtesy of Leif Norman focallength 24 flash 9 cameramake Canon height 3648 fnumber 5.6 exposuretime 0.01 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS5 originaldate 3/4/2017 1:41:19 AM width 5472 cameramodel Canon EOS 6D Staff and students of the University of Manitoba and Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre Hospital created handmade books using Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawings as inspiration during a craft workshop on March 17. Photo courtesy of Sari Hannila Staff and students of the University of Manitoba and Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre Hospital created handmade books using Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawings as inspiration during a craft workshop on March 17. Photo courtesy of Sari Hannila cameramake samsung focallength 3.7 height 4608 fnumber 1.9 exposuretime 0.01 alt : 0 lat : 49.904167 long : -97.160556 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS5 originaldate 3/17/2017 5:16:09 PM width 2592 cameramodel SM-G903W At Doane Stuart School in Rensselaer, N.Y., students learned about daily activities that rely on the function of the brain and took part in demos. Photo courtesy of Annalisa Scimemi At Doane Stuart School in Rensselaer, NY, students learned about daily activities that rely on the function of the brain, and took part in demos. Photo courtesy of Annalisa Scimemi originaldate 1/1/0001 6:00:00 AM width 954 height 657 On March 18, children and adults learned about microscopes and other devices at the Ukraine Chapter’s BAW event at Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology in Kiev. Photo courtesy of Olekciy Boldyriev focallength 18 flash 16 cameramake Canon height 3017 fnumber 5 exposuretime 0.00625 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS6 originaldate 3/18/2017 7:09:53 PM width 4450 cameramodel Canon EOS 50D Attendees at the Ukraine BAW event left with the Ukrainian version of the Dana Alliance’s book "More Mindbogglers!" and a poster of the brain’s structure and organization. Photo courtesy of Olekciy Boldyriev focallength 19 flash 16 cameramake Canon height 3029 fnumber 5 exposuretime 0.00625 orientation 1 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop CS6 originaldate 3/18/2017 6:58:24 PM width 3876 cameramodel Canon EOS 50D On March 13, the DC Metro Area Chapter hosted See and Hear Your Brain! for local students to learn about the human brain through an interactive EEG station and a microscope station that visualized human brain cells. Photo courtesy of Nathanael J. Lee focallength 50 flash 16 cameramake SONY height 3925 fnumber 2.8 exposuretime 0.0125 camerasoftware Adobe Photoshop Ligh originaldate 3/13/2017 3:50:18 PM width 5887 cameramodel SLT-A77V
Share Your BAW Stories
Share photos of your brain awareness outreach activities by emailing high-resolution photos and captions to baw@sfn.org or by tweeting them to @SfNtweets , #BAW or #BrainWeek.
Every March, neuroscientists participate in Brain Awareness Week (BAW), an international celebration of the brain and nervous system. Founded by the Dana Foundation 22 years ago, Brain Awareness Week is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. This year, SfN members participated in activities ranging from taking selfies with brain models to making crafts using the drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal as inspiration, and even organizing a museum exhibition of neuroscience-themed art. Enjoy a few photos of the celebrations that happened this year in the slideshow above.
Check out the members-only resources from Neuronline to get ideas for year-round outreach, and watch the BAW webinar on BrainFacts.org that features information on outreach activities related to our five main senses.
Another way to get involved with neuroscience outreach is by producing an educational video about the brain and entering it in the Brain Awareness Video Contest . The first-place winner is awarded $1,000 and a free trip to SfN’s annual meeting.
