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Neuroscience

The neuroscience concentration at Denison is designed to offer students an interdisciplinary perspective on the nervous system and behavior, and an opportunity to obtain a diverse focus that both complements and broadens the more narrowly-defined major. Majors in biology, chemistry, psychology, and computer science would be likely candidates to follow this interdisciplinary approach.

Heather J. Rhodes

Heather J. Rhodes,Associate Professor, Chair of Neuroscience

Neuroscience students use all 86 billion neurons in the brain.

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Spotlights

Professor Eric Liebl and Hannah Swahn '16

Just follow the molecules

“Every piece of data tells us something and points to a new question,” says biologist and geneticist Eric Liebl.

Data Analytics professor Sarah Supp.

How We Learn

Data Analytics 101: Much More Than Coding

Data Analytics is more than a great skill — it's a foundational way of seeing and understanding.

Adam Van Dyke, '08, in the lab.

Where We Go

Alumnus Start-Up Bridges Science, Health and Business

Inspired to help patients suffering from the effects of depression, an alumnus doctor and CEO finds a new way.

blue brain with lightning

How We Learn

NERD’s without Borders: A Neuroscience Education “Free for All”

Students in the Advanced Neuroscience Seminar create YouTube videos and corresponding TED-ED Lessons, free for everyone everywhere.

Lyric Jorgenson ’00 fell in love with neuroscience, and now she’s staff lead for the BRAIN Initiative at the National Institutes of Health.

Where We Go

She has science writing on the BRAIN

Lyric Jorgenson '00 fell in love with neuroscience, and now she's staff lead for the BRAIN Initiative at the National Institutes of Health

What's Happening

University News

Denison receives $650,000 NSF grant to aid low-income STEM students

The National Science Foundation has awarded Denison $650,000 to enable talented low-income students to pursue majors and careers in STEM fields.

In the News

Dr. Sophia French on Neonatal Neuroscience

Dr. Sophia French '11, a child neurologist at Oregon Health and Science University, explains a new study about alcohol/tobacco use while pregnant.

Faculty

Associate Professor Heather Rhodes honored

Associate Professor Heather Rhodes has been honored as a Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity’s outstanding faculty member.

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