61传媒 alumna Kate Fehlhaber ’09 and her team of fellow graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at UCLA at the organization’s annual meeting in San Diego. The students, who specialize in various areas of neuroscience, founded the neuroscience education website, which explains complicated ideas about the brain clearly and accurately using powerful images, infographics, and animations. The Society for Neuroscience’s award acknowledges that Knowing Neurons has become “an important science communication outlet and resource for both students and teachers,” .
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