UW-Madison Neuroscience and Public Policy Program

The countdown to Science Expeditions begins!

https://science.wisc.edu/science-expeditions/

N&PP Student Spotlight! Once every semester, one of our fantastic N&PP students gives a talk on a topic of their choosing. This semester, we are excited to hear from Grace George! Grace is a third year N&PP student in Dr. Ryan Herringa's BRAVE Youth Lab. She studies parent-child interactions of children and adolescents with PTSD using neuroimaging as well as psychophysiological methods. She is currently working towards her Master's in Public Affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Grace is interested in social and education policy, specifically how to incorporate neuroscience in education to help foster better education for neurodivergent children.

Please join us today at 3pm on Zoom (https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93460513168?pwd=a014QVZ0clhHeDdDNEROaG9qNTJOZz09) to hear Grace's talk entitled "Theoretical Socioeconomical Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Neural Development, Mental Health, and K-12 Educational Achievement ".

Please join us today at 3pm CT via Zoom for a session with our invited speaker, Dr. Eve Edelstein from the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture! Dr. Edelstein will speak to us about the urgent need for scientists and clinicians to engage in and enhance the process of design. Please see the attached flyer for the Zoom information.

This Thursday, join the Neuroscience and Public Policy Program in a discussion with previous alumni about their careers! More information can be found in the flyer below.

Tomorrow, August 6th, from 1 - 3 PM CST, join the Neuroscience Training Program and the Neuroscience and Public Policy Program at the NIH Virtual Graduate & Professional Fair. Stop in our WebEx room and ask questions about our dual degree programs, life at UW-Madison, and graduate study. Join the live WebEx session though the link below:

https://tinyurl.com/y955qdy5

Can't wait to see you there!

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect daily life, N&PP faculty give insight on why people may be wary in their trust of science. It is apparent now more than ever the need for scientists in policy - and we are proud to be training students to do just that.

Examining Distrust of Science During Pandemic Scientists must learn to speak to different audiences.

We would like to extend a huge thank you to Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers from Yale University for presenting her research at N&PP Seminar earlier this month!

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers from Yale University to our N&PP seminar this week! Please join us on Thursday, March 12th at 3:00pm to hear Dr. Baskin-Sommers speak on the topic of “Harnessing mechanisms to inform the management and treatment of psychopathy."

Please join us today (2/20) at 3pm in the Biotechnology Auditorium for the second invited lecture in our N&PP Seminar Series of the semester! UW-Madison's own Traci Snedden will be giving a talk entitled “Concussion in youth sport: Does legislation improve outcomes?” See you there!

UW-Madison Professor of law and bioethics Pilar Ossorio comments on the impacts of using artificial intelligence in patient care and the risks that are associated with it. Check out this article to learn more about the convergence of technology and medical sciences and the legislature regulating this new field here.

Artificial Intelligence Is Rushing Into Patient Care—And Could Raise Risks AI systems are not as rigorously tested as other medical devices, and have already made serious mistakes