Peer Mentoring & Student-Student Engagement: A main focus of NMU is to facilitate communication across students and provide ways to meet mentors within the neuroscience community. Recently, we held a speed dating event to specifically give first year students the opportunity to get to know other neuroscience students – new and old. We’ve also assigned mentor/mentee pairs as a part of the peer mentoring program, which has organized events to regularly hear from an experienced neuroscience student.
Art Contest: This is a Neuroscience-themed art contest hosted by the Duke Neuroscience Majors’ Union! All Duke students, faculty, and staff are free to participate (you do not have to be a Neuro major). As part of the contest, we will award a $50 Visa gift card to the top submission. We are looking for works that express an idea, interest in, or an inspiration based on anything related to neuroscience!
Short Courses & Seminars: NMU will help host and organize seminars to meet with experienced faculty and professionals within the brain sciences. One previous event was a 5-week short course on how the central nervous system coagulates information to perceive the physical world so successfully.
