BRAINS ON DISPLAY AT BAY VIEW
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Margaret Mahoney, Grade 7, East Providence, with Dr. Heimer-McGinn
East Providence, RI – ??Victoria Heimer-McGinn, (Pawtucket, RI), Brown University Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience, co-chair of Brain Week Rhode Island, and also a Bay View mom, brought her traveling presentation on the human brain to Bay View Academy in March. She even brought the brains!
Dr. Heimer-McGinn joined Dr. John Stein (Providence, RI), Brown University Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience, in his efforts to present on the subject of brain science to school-aged children. Bay View students from Pre-K through grade 12 had the opportunity to visit six different hands-on stations, including the preserved human brain experience, a memory station, a brain injury table, a sensory experience station, a mental health table, and an electrophysiology experiment station where students could hear what real neurons sound like when they fire action potentials.
Dr. Heimer-McGinn says that with the underrepresentation of women neuroscientists and neurologists, she hopes the students at Bay View, an all-girls school, will be inspired and confident that they too can become brain scientists.
Dr. Heimer-McGinn and Dr. Stein were joined by the following presenters:
Neha Raukar, MD (Center for Sports Medicine, also a Bay View mom)
Tara Jacobson, PhD (Brown University, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience)
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, PhD (Brown University, Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience)
Hakon Heimer, MS (CEO of Cure Alliance for Mental Illness and co-chair of Brain Week RI)
??St. Mary Academy – Bay View is an independent Catholic School for girls open to all faiths, Pre-kindergarten through Grade 12, located in East Providence, Rhode Island and sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy. In existence since 1874, Bay View endeavors to provide a quality education preparing girls and young women for the challenges of the global community. St. Mary Academy – Bay View is a college preparatory school accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
About the Sisters of Mercy: ??The Sisters of Mercy ??? an international community of Roman Catholic women ??? dedicate their lives to God through vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service.?? For more than 180 years, motivated by the Gospel of Jesus and inspired by the spirit of their founder, Catherine McAuley, the Sisters of Mercy have responded to the continually changing needs of the time.