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Science On The Cutting Edge from page 21 Educators About Classroom Hands-on Science) enables or genetics from MPFI researchers. These workshops
Teachers, Researchers Collaborate local teachers to elevate their lesson plans in science, help to bring research to life for students by providing
their educators with in-person experience with leading
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with the latest
To Bring Cutting-Edge Science scientific knowledge and leading techniques. laboratory science.
Seven middle and high school science educators from

The teachers could borrow an MPFI Lending Lab
Lessons To Students Palm Beach and Martin County Schools received in-depth, Classroom Kit, including slides and samples, five stereo
hands-on training in microscopy and cell biology, and/ microscopes, and a fluorescence microscope kit, including
Some of South Florida’s most innovative teachers camera and imaging software that allow them to recreate
recently collaborated with researchers at Max Planck workshop lessons in the classroom.
Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) in the second Teachers and schools that took part in TEACHS
annual TEACHS workshops. TEACHS (Teaching include:
• Caitlin Holloway, Wellington High School
• Mary Murillo, Jupiter Middle School
• Vari Seenath, Santaluces Community High School
• Renee Szeliga, The Benjamin School
• Marianne Way, St. Juliana School
• Nicholas Waltz, Palm Beach Lakes High School
• Steven Weber, Village Academy
Thursday, March 7: Gut Feelings - The Gut TEACHS is funded by a grant from the Mary and
Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain Health Robert Pew Public Education Fund. To learn more,
Across the Lifespan. teachers are invited to visit mpfi.org/teachs.
Lecture, reception and book signing presented by John
Cryan, Ph.D., Professor and Chair Neuroscience, Dept.
of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College, Cork,
Ireland. Hosted by Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., MacArthur
Campus, FL Atlantic MacArthur Campus, Jupiter.
Lecture 7 – 8 p.m., Book Signing 8 – 9 p.m.

Tuesday, March 12: Well-being is a Skill Lecture.
Reception and book signing: Richard Davidson, Ph.D.,
William Charles James and Vilas Research Professor
of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder of the Gelb
Auditorium, and Director of the Center for Healthy
Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Founder
and Chief Visionary for Healthy Minds Innovations, Inc.
Hosted by Nicole Baganz, Ph.D., Stiles-Nicholson Brain
Institute: Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine,
Gelb auditorium Florida Atlantic, Boca Raton
Campus. Lecture 7 – 8 p.m., Book Signing 8 – 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 16: BrainSparks! Hands-on brain
fun Presented by the Advancing STEM-Community,
Engagement Through Neuroscience Discovery
(ASCEND) program of the Florida Atlantic Stiles-
Nicholson Brain Institute. Unlock the secrets of the brain
with neuroscientists as your guide, featuring dozens of
hands-on STEM activities designed to introduce young
minds to neuroscience. Free Event with paid admission
to the Cox Science Center and Aquarium presented
by Neuro Squad in partnership with the Cox Science
Center and Aquarium, Max Planck Florida Institute for
Neuroscience and the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps
Institute. Cox Science Center and Aquarium, 4801
Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Questions? Contact: BI-Outreach@fau.edu.

Insights at the Institute. An art exhibition of creativity
and the bipolar brain presented by The Ryan Licht Sang
Bipolar Foundation, Palm Health Foundation, and the
Stiles Nicholson Brain Institute. Stiles Nicholson Brain
Institute: Saturday March 16 Noon to 5 p.m. Monday,
March 18, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, 5 p.m. FRoM 7
to 8 p.m.
to 10 PM
Thursday, March 21: Art, Architecture and Human
Well-being. Cocktail hour, lecture and book signing/
reception to follow. Register: Email Kristian Zambrana
kzambrana@coxsciencecenter.org presented by Anjan
Chatterjee, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, Psychology Hosted By
and Architecture, University of Pennsylvania and
Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. dJ-JeFF
Hosted by Nicole Baganz, Ph.D., Stiles Nicholson
Brain Institute. Cox Science Center and Aquarium,
4801 Dreher Trail N. West Palm Beach. Cocktails 6 2 tacos
p.m. – 7 p.m., Lecture 7 p.m. – 8 p.m., Book Signing
8 p.m. – 9 p.m. FoR $10

Saturday, March 23: Rhythms of the Brain. Register: 2x1
m3f.org/events NeuroArts symposium presented by
Mind, Music, Movement Foundation. Kravis Center tequila
701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 11 a.m. –
4:30 p.m. sHots $6 House

Friday, March 29: Neural Nexus: Fusing Science, MaRgaRitas
Art, and Creativity presented by Gregg Dunn, Ph.D.,
Interdisciplinary Scholar and Author in Humanities and
Neuroscience. Hosted by Robert S., Stackman, Ph., and
Bethany Stanhope, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University.
Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, Florida Atlantic
MacArthur Campus, Jupiter. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
1155 Main st. suite 120, JuPiteR, Fl