Summer 2024 Neuroscience Courses Now Open for Enrollment!

This summer, the Undergraduate Neuroscience IDP will be offering the following courses in in-person or online formats. Please contact the Summer Sessions Office (https://summer.ucla.edu/) or the Neuroscience advising office (neurosci@ucla.edu) if you have any questions about enrollment! Enrollment for UCLA students begins February 1st, while enrollment for non-UCLA students begins on February 15th.

NEUROSC 10: Brain Made Simple: Neuroscience for the 21^st Century (Session A, June 24th – August 2nd, 2024)

Tuesday & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (On-Campus)
Fulfills UCLA GE requirement – Scientific Inquiry: Life Sciences
Also open to high school and non-UCLA college students!

NEUROSC 20: Introduction to Neuroscience Methods: The Art and Science of Studying the Brain (Session A, June 24th – August 2nd, 2024)

Lectures: Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays and Discussion: Thursdays, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. (Online)
Great introductory course for UCLA students considering the Neuroscience major or minor!
Also open to high school and non-UCLA college students!

NEUROSC 102: Introduction to Functional Anatomy of Central Nervous System (Session C, August 5th – September 13th, 2024)

Lectures: Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 – 1:00 p.m. (On-Campus)
Labs: Mondays or Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (On-Campus)
Fulfills core requirement for Neuroscience majors or elective option for Neuroscience minors.

Students who have not yet taken NEUROSC M101A will need to be manually enrolled by an advisor – please email neurosci@ucla.edu your enrollment request (including UID, the quarter you completed LIFESCI 7C, and preferred lab section). Students are also expected to be on track to enroll in NEUROSC M101A for Fall 2024 (as NEUROSC M101A and 102 are co-requisites).

Declared neuroscience majors and minors: LIFESCI 7C must be completed in order to enroll.
Declared neuroscience majors and minors planning to take LIFESCI 7C in the spring: Students are eligible to enroll after showing proof of enrollment in LIFESCI 7C for the spring quarter.
For non-majors or students planning to declare the major/minor: Students can enroll starting April 1st if all prerequisites for the course have been completed or are in-progress.

NEUROSC 150: Biotechnology in Neuroscience (Session C, August 5th – September 13th, 2024)

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. (On-Campus)
Fulfills the Molecular, Cell and Developmental Elective category for Neuroscience majors/minors (also open to non-majors interested in the subject!)

NOTE: The enrollment prerequisites of NEUROSC M101A and M101B have been lifted for NEUROSC 150 this summer! Please let the Neuroscience advisors know if you would like to enroll in this class so we can help you waive these prerequisites (sophomore level students and above).

NEUROSC M161: Personal Brain Management (Session A, June 24th – August 2nd, 2024)

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Online)
Fulfills the Behavioral and Cognitive Elective category for Neuroscience majors/minors

NEUROSC 191A: Cognitive Horizons: Unveiling the Neuroscience of Normal Aging and Neurodegenerative Trajectories (Session A, June 24th – August 2nd, 2024)

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (On-Campus)
Fulfills the Behavioral and Cognitive Elective category for Neuroscience majors/minors

NOTE: The enrollment prerequisite of NEUROSC M101A has been lifted for NEUROSC 191A this summer! Please let the Neuroscience advisors know if you would like to enroll in this class so we can help you waive these prerequisites (sophomore level students and above).

2021 Neuroscience Graduate Receives Fulbright Grant for Research in Germany

Laila Khorasani, member of the Neuroscience major class of 2021, has received a Fulbright Grant to conduct neuroscience research for the 2021-2022 academic year. For her Fulbright grant, Laila applied through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, specifically for an “Open-Research” award in Germany. The research grants are open to both seniors/recent graduates for a gap year experience and PhD students to do a portion of their dissertation research abroad. Laila is using her grant to do research at the Technical University of Munich’s Institute for Neuroscience, where she’ll be studying sensorimotor integration using a decision-making apparatus with larval zebrafish, and employing neuroimaging techniques in order to identify the specific circuitry that allows information from multiple sensory modalities to be accumulated and used to generate a motor output.

During her time as a student at UCLA, Laila was significantly involved in the Neuroscience community, including serving as Co-President of InterAxon and Nu Rho Psi’s UCLA Chapter and as an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Neil Harris’s lab in the neurosurgery department (which contributed to her departmental capstone and departmental honors project). Her lab involvement was a big motivator for when it came to applying for Fulbright and similar grants since the experience there is what got her interested in the topic of her Fulbright research. Laila was also a member of the i2URP and USIE programs at UCLA and taught an undergraduate seminar in her last quarter at UCLA, NEUROSC 88S: Exploration of Neuroscience Fiction and Fact.

Laila hopes her experience with the Fulbright will encourage other neuroscience and STEM majors to apply for Fulbright grants in the future!

2021 Pinnacle Award Finalist from the College Media Organization

Neuroscience Student, Vivian Xu has been selected as a finalist for the College Media Organization‘s 2021 Pinnacle Award.

This nomination is for her article on creativity, which was featured in the Daily Bruin. You can read the article, by clicking this link. Congratulations Vivian!

Dr. Stephanie White, uNSIDP Chair, featured on “Knowing Neurons” Podcast

Check out this interview that Dr. White did with the Knowing Neurons podcast regarding her research on vocal learning in songbirds!

LINK: https://knowingneurons.com/2021/04/22/songbirds-and-vocal-learning-interview-with-dr-stephanie-white/

One Day at a Time: A UCLA Oral History

Faculty, staff, students (including fourth-year neuroscience major Mikaila Bantugan) and administrators share how they persevered during the COVID-19 pandemic.