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Hi, my name is Emily Lovejoy, and I am a rising senior at Bryn Mawr College.  I am majoring in psychology, with a minor in geology.  The two fields don't quite go hand in hand, but it is interesting to learn about two sciences that can be taught in very different ways.  I am particularly interested in studying eating disorders and the neurobiology associated with them.  I am also interested in education, and I think it would be rewarding to combine my interests in education and psychology to become a school psychologist.

Hello!  My name is Brielle Stark and I'm a rising sophomore at Bryn Mawr College.  I hope to major in psychology, minor in biology and concentrate in neural and behavioral science.  I have aspirations of studying the behavioral impact of traumatic brain injury and seizures on the brain as well as studying the diverse behavioral affects of developmental disorders in regard to the usage and structure of the brain.  I have worked with individuals with disabilities for roughly eight years now, and hope to continue this relationship in my career.

I was perusing NYT and found this great article on the evolution of learning.  I found it very interesting with relation to Dr. Grobstein's Biology 202 course last spring for several of my webpapers.

www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/06dumb.html

 

Updating (in progress) an older resource list (additional suggestions welcome in forum below):

Yep,  The Brothers Bloom is a con-man movie of sorts, and yep, it's (Roger Ebert) "lively at times ...lovely to look at, and the actors are persuasive ...

Spring is clearly here, even in the Tropics of Guatemala. 

We have a 5-6 month (May to October) rainy season and a 6-7 month (October to May) dry season.  But in fact the dry season is two very distinct periods: a dry winter season with cold waves from the arctic and beginning about 1 March warm humid nights with increasing humidity and oppressive atmosphere until the rains break in May (a typical pre-monsoon season).  But Spring begins before any changes in the weather.  Spring everywhere begins before any change in the weather could seem to trigger it.

In his seminal work Language and Mind world-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky discusses the development of language. In a series of telling essays and lectures he presents the linguistic contributions to past, present, and future studies of the mind and details the distinctive nature of language. Combining concepts from biology and psychology he attempts to trace the origin of language, all the while analyzing what these origins imply about the nature of the brain. One Chomskyan theory of particular interest deals with language acquisition and is labeled "Universal Grammar" (Chomsky 99)1. In the following paragraphs I will present and discuss this theory and attempt to situate it with the neurobiological conclusions reached by our class this semester.

"All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets IT- everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows its not the tune that counts but IT." -from On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1)

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