New York City schoolchildren at the Sixth Annual Brain Awareness Fair.
The Friedman Brain Institute recently joined the Dana Foundation in its global efforts to increase public knowledge of the progress and benefits of brain research by hosting and supporting a number of activities aimed at educating students and the community about brain science in fun, interactive ways.
The Sixth Annual Brain Awareness Fair, held in Guggenheim Pavilion, delighted more than 450 New York City schoolchildren and residents of the East Harlem community, an effort that was organized by Mentoring in Neuroscience Discovery at Sinai and the Center for Excellence in Youth Education with the support of 100 Mount Sinai volunteers. Attendees interacted with top scientists and clinicians at
At the “Art of the Brain” exhibition, Prashanth Rajarajan, an MD/PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, explained his photograph that depicts astrocytes, an important cell type in the brain.
The Fifth Annual “Art of the Brain” exhibition, which was held in an East Harlem gallery, drew several hundred visitors over a six-week period and featured 39 works of art that showcased photographs, images, paintings, medical illustrations, and sculptures that celebrate the beauty of the brain as seen through the eyes of Mount Sinai researchers, physicians, and staff. Most of the exhibition items were available for purchase, with the proceeds placed in a Friedman Brain Institute philanthropy fund to support Mount Sinai’s “Diversity in Neuroscience” initiative.