Brain Waves Posts

AUTHOR: Bill Simpson, Ph.D

All things must come to an end and graduate school is no exception. At some point during graduate life, you will have to consider life beyond the bench (or clipboard for you clinical scientists out there). There are many possible paths you can follow, all...

AUTHOR: Dr. Ryan Van Lieshout   

We are proud to say that our program is comprised of some of the brightest students and most dedicated faculty on the entire campus.

It is not surprising then that we regularly hear of instances where students or faculty go above and beyond the call...

AUTHOR: Christopher Rowley and Shawna Thompson

This past fall, members of the MiNDS program banded together to form an intramural dodgeball team that was cleverly named The Lobotomizers. Despite the team name, headshots were forbidden in game play, but that didn’t stop The Lobotomizers from instil...

AUTHOR: Jasmine Turna

The holiday season may be over and we’re all back at work, but the Students of MiNDS Association (SOMA) would like to invite everyone to take some time out of their busy schedules and join us for the first get together of 2016.

The Winter Social will be hosted on Thursday Febru...

Author: Elyse Rosa

Jonathan Lai was a PhD student in the MiNDS program working with Dr. Jane Foster. Jonathan defended his thesis in the spring of 2015. While working with Dr. Foster, his PhD work focused on neurodevelopmental outcomes in the Fragile X mouse model. Since graduating from the MiNDS pr...

All things must come to an end and graduate school is no exception. At some point during graduate life, you will have to consider life beyond the bench (or clipboard for you clinical scientists out there). There are many possible paths you can follow, all of them with their ...

AUTHOR: Crystal Mahadeo

This year as a part of the MiNDS Outreach Program also known as “Out of our MiNDS”, a new high school co-op program was launched. The purpose of this initiative was to fill a gap in the current high school curriculum, which has few, if any opportunities for high school students to ...

As proud students of McMaster’s Neuroscience Graduate program, it seems fitting that the current issue of Brainwaves should feature a brief account of this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. With just under 30,000 attendees, the meeting was held at Chica...