Robert B. Glassman Memorial Brain, Mind, and Behavior Symposium

Honoring Outstanding Student and Faculty, and Alumni Research in Behavioral and Life Sciences

The Brain Awareness Week Faculty/Student Symposium was renamed the Robert B. Glassman Memorial Brain, Mind, and Behavior Symposium in 2013 in honor of the late Professor of Psychology Robert Glassman, who played a leading role in developing Lake Forest’s popular neuroscience major.

The symposium consists of a series of talks given by Lake Forest College faculty and alumni on October 30 and a poster session where Lake Forest students and alumni will present their original research on October 31. 

October 29 — Faculty/Alumni Talks

7–9 p.m., Tarble Room, Brown Hall 

6:30 p.m. Reception

7:00 p.m. Welcome Remarks, Synapse

Charles Alvarado ’16, PhD in Educational Psychology 

Children Maltreatment Solutions Network, Department of Education, Penn State University

Looking Beyond the Page: The Role of Childhood Adversity in Learning To Read

7:05 p.m.

Emily Dix, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Lake Forest College

Understanding the Recognition vs. Denial of Racial Discrimination

7:25 p.m.

Trevor Buhr ‘18, PhD in Neuroscience, Iowa State University 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine 

Investigating the Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Stress-Induced Physical Inactivity

7:45 p.m.

Elisabeth Bacon ’19, PhD candidate in Neuroscience 

Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Long and the Short of It: Neurons That Run Together Longer, Communicate Stronger

8:05 p.m.

Sugata Banerji, PhD

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lake Forest College

Artificial Imagination: Teaching Computers to Dream

8:25 p.m.

8:45 p.m. Closing Remarks, Synapse