News and Information:  Announcements

Regular Events:

• Joint Seminar Series with Dept of Neuroscience
   
• Neurolunch Schedule
   
• Thursday Tea Times (intellectual discussions)
   
• Annual IPN Retreat
   
• NeuroFest Schedule  (summer program - word doc)
   
• Summer Course
   

Special Events:

• View Georgetown Abstracts for the
   2007 Society for Neuroscience meetings
   
• Research Abroad Opportunities (PIRE Program)

          Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate

Dr. Karen Gale applied for the IPN to become a Partner Department in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate Program.  The Carnegie Foundation chose only 9 Neuroscience Programs in the country to be Partner Departments and Georgetown is among the 9.  Click here to see what the CID group at Georgetown is doing to promote innovation in the IPN. 

From the Carnegie website:

"The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) is a multi-year research and action project to support departments' efforts to more purposefully structure their doctoral programs. We will work closely with the disciplinary communities, as well as selected departments, in six fields of study. We will foster discipline-based conceptual work and design experiments in a small number of selected departments. Carnegie will collect, examine and disseminate findings from this significant discussion and related experiments. "

  This prestigious partnership will allow the IPN to continue its pursuit of excellence in education.  The ongoing dialog between students and faculty to improve our Program continues at a higher level with the support of this award.  Click to see the news release on the Georgetown site.
 

The Center for the Study of Sex Differences

The CSD will hold its fourth annual symposium on Thursday, October 18, 2007. 

Mechanisms Underlying Sex Differences in
Cardiovascular-Renal Disease

As part of its efforts to promote the importance of sex-based research in all fields of medicine, the CSD sponsors an Annual Fall Symposium at Georgetown University. The day-long event features internationally renowned scientists from premier medical institutions in the United States and Europe who discuss critical new insights generated from their research.