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News and notes from the Bunge Lab and beyond

Heading to Patagonia!

This week, Silvia will give a talk in Buenos Aires and then head to Patagonia to participate in the 2nd Latin American School for Education, Neural and Cognitive Sciences, funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation. For announcements about future meetings, check the School’s website.

What makes this trip even more special is that Silvia’s family is from Argentina. This will be her first visit in 17 years. On top of that, the site of this year’s School is hard to beat…

 

Chloe receives grad student fellowship

First-year grad student Chloe Green has been accepted as a fellow in the Research in Cognition and Mathematics Education program at UC Berkeley. This program will cover her tuition and stipend for the next 2-3 years. Congrats, Chloe!

Intro to E-book on the Developing Human Brain

Frontiers, an online publisher, will be publishing an E-book on the Developing Human Brain. Here is the introduction: PDF

Special issue on Neuroscience & Education

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Silvia Bunge are thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue of the new journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, focused on the intersection between neuroscience and education. The papers will be open access for one year, thanks to a donation from the Dana Foundation.

PDF of the introduction to the special issue 

Click here and scroll down to to access the full Special Issue on Neuroscience and Education.

 

 

Three generations of scientists

Assistant Professor Linda van Leijenhorst trained with Professor Eveline Crone, who trained with Silvia. Here we were at the Nobel Forum to give talks at a conference on brain plasticity.

Newest member of National Scientific Council on the Developing Child

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/council/council_members/

Silvia helping to design an intervention in Washington state

http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1793&newsType=1