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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE AWARDS MUSEUM
 | Adrianne Noe, Ph.D., the museum’s
director, left, and Archie Fobbs, the
museum’s neuroanatomical
collections
manager, right, receive Washington, D.C.
Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proclamation of
Brain Awareness Week from the
Society
for Neuroscience (SfN) in recognition of the
museum’s activities for area students.
Copyright © 2007, Society for Neuroscience.
All rights reserved.
Photos taken by
Joe Shymanski.
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The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) awarded the National Museum of Health and Medicine Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proclamation of Brain Awareness Week during the museum’s brain awareness activities held March 12-16, 2007. SfN President David Van Essen and Marty Saggese, executive director, awarded the proclamation to Archie Fobbs, the museum’s neuroanatomical collections manager, and Adrianne Noe, Ph.D., the museum’s director.
 | Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
President David Van Essen
engages students in an
educational session about
the
cerebral cortex prior to the
museum’s Brain Awareness Week
activities.
Copyright © 2007,
Society for Neuroscience. All
rights reserved.
Photos taken by
Joe Shymanski.
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In addition to presenting the museum with the proclamation, SfN joined a collaborative effort at the National Museum of Health and Medicine to assist with the week's worth of activities.
A working team of professionals were on hand to help with students, and SfN provided educators with curriculum materials. Van Essen also led a March 15 session on the cerebral cortex for an audience of students and their teachers.
Fobbs organized the first “Brain Awareness Week” at the museum in 2000 when he joined forces with Benjamin Walker, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Georgetown University, and Karen Graham, senior project manager at The Dana Foundation for Brain Initiatives. With the support of Noe, and through their creative collaboration to gather researchers, professors and organizations with the goal of introducing young scholars to neurology, a brainchild was born. Johanna Medlin, the museum's HDAC collections technician, and Regina Hunt, the museum's acting tour program coordinator, co-coordinated this year's "Brain Awareness Week." The museum has educated more than 4,500 area students during “Brain Awareness Week” since 2000.
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