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Join us for our fourth educational event!🧠

We will be going over Chapter 4: Learning Memory & Emotion and playing a fun Kahoot for a prize!

We recommend you read the chapter but it is NOT mandatory. We hope to see you there!

🗓️Friday, October 16th
⏰4:30-5:30 PM
📍Gould-Simpson Room 601 by @uofaneuroscience

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Chapter 3: Movement 🧠

Here’s a quick recap of what we learned about how the brain controls movement at our latest SABB Book Club!

Thank you to everyone who joined us! Stay tuned for our next chapter and event! 🐝

Special thanks to Eysho, Isa, and Sanaa for helping us make this video! 💛 by @uofaneuroscience

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Join us for our next educational event! 🧠

We will be going over Chapter 3: Movement and playing a fun Kahoot for a prize!

We recommend reading the chapter, but it is NOT mandatory. We hope
to see you there!

🗓️ Friday, October 9th ⏰ 4:30–5:30 PM 📍 Gould-Simpson Room 601 by @uofaneuroscience

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Join us for our second general meeting! 🧠

Come make your own pipe cleaner neuron and enjoy FREE food! We hope to see you there!

🗓️ Monday, October 5th
⏰ 6–7 PM
📍 ILC 141 by @uofaneuroscience

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🧠 FACULTY FRIDAY: LAB SPOTLIGHT 🔬

We’re expanding Faculty Friday to highlight research labs across the University of Arizona where NSCS and NSCI students have gained hands-on research experience!

This week, meet Dr. Jonathan Tullis, Chair of the Cognitive Science GIDP and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology.

🧠 RESEARCH FOCUS
Dr. Tullis and his team study how people learn, remember, and make decisions about their own learning. Their research explores memory, attention, metacognition, and decision-making, including how people connect new information to prior knowledge and how accurately they judge what they have learned.

The lab is also exploring how technologies like AI can help, or sometimes hurt, learning and how students decide when to rely on these tools.

🔬 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Students in the lab can gain experience running behavioral experiments, collecting and organizing data, coding responses, analyzing data, and communicating research. As students gain experience, they may take greater ownership of projects, develop research questions, and design their own studies.

The lab has included students from psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, educational psychology, and other backgrounds. More than a specific major or technical skill, Dr. Tullis looks for students who are reliable, communicate well, and are genuinely curious about research.

💡 ADVICE FOR STUDENTS
“Failure is incredibly common in research... The important thing is to learn something from those experiences and keep going.”

🚀 FUN FACT: As an undergraduate, Dr. Tullis helped build a rocket that was launched into the Northern Lights to collect data. Unfortunately, the rocket exploded over Alaska, so he still likes to say he was once a “rocket scientist.”

🏺 Outside of research and teaching, he enjoys making pottery.

Research opportunities for NSCS and NSCI students extend across many disciplines at UArizona. Follow Faculty Friday: Lab Spotlight as we highlight more of the labs where our students are learning and contributing!

#FacultyFriday #LabSpotlight #NSCS #NSCI #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #UndergraduateResearch #UArizona #BearDown by @uofaneuroscience

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Join us for our first educational event!🧠

We will be going over Chapter 1: Brain Basics and playing a fun Kahoot for a prize!

We recommend you read the first chapter but it is NOT mandatory. We hope to see you there!

🗓️Friday, September 25th
⏰4:30-5:30 PM
📍Gould-Simpson Room 601 by @uofaneuroscience

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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Genesis Arizmendi! 🎉

We are excited to congratulate Dr. Genesis Arizmendi, one of our Neuroscience & Cognitive Science (NSCS) faculty members, on receiving the Early Career Scholar Award at the 2026 University of Arizona Distinguished Faculty Awards ceremony on September 23, 2026! 🧠✨

Dr. Arizmendi is an Assistant Professor in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences with a joint appointment in Cognitive Science and teaches courses supporting both Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the NSCS program.

Her community-centered research examines how bilingual language experiences shape learning, development, and access to opportunity for children and adults in multilingual and multicultural settings. Her interdisciplinary work is helping advance both clinical practice and our understanding of bilingual language and cognitive processes.

We are proud to have Dr. Arizmendi as part of our NSCS community and thrilled to celebrate this well-deserved recognition!

Congratulations, Dr. Arizmendi! 🌵🐻⬇️

#UArizona #BearDown #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #NSCS #FacultyExcellence #EarlyCareerScholar #SpeechLanguageHearingSciences #Bilingualism #UniversityOfArizona by @uofaneuroscience

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Join us for our first social!🧠

Brain Bee will be playing FrisBee at the UA Mall from 6-7 PM! Meet us near the Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium building (the side facing the Mall).🥏 by @uofaneuroscience

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The Department of Neuroscience is proud to celebrate Dr. Marina Cholanian, recipient of the College of Science Distinguished Early-Career Teaching Award.

Dr. Cholanian was recognized during the University of Arizona College of Science’s annual Teaching, Advising, and Entrepreneurial Awards Reception on Thursday, September 10, 2026, where the award was presented by Associate Dean Dr. Brad Story. Members of the Department of Neuroscience joined colleagues from across the College of Science to celebrate Dr. Cholanian and this special recognition.

The Distinguished Early-Career Teaching Award recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and student learning by faculty early in their careers. Dr. Cholanian’s dedication to her students and commitment to excellence in education make her an important part of the Department of Neuroscience and the student experience at the University of Arizona.

Congratulations, Dr. Cholanian, on this outstanding achievement! by @uofaneuroscience

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