“Brrraaaaiiiinnsssss!” No, that’s not a zombie looking for a snack; it’s the crowd at Brainfest! Brainfest is a free spring event put on by graduate students at Johns Hopkins University meant to make neuroscience cool, fun, and educational for everyone. To learn more about this event, we talked with Blake and Isis, neuroscience graduate students at JHU and the directors of this year’s Brainfest. If you want to know more about this event, then check out this episode!

Brainfest will take place on Saturday April 1 from 11 am - 3 pm at the Cherry Hill branch of the Enoch Pratt Library (606 Cherry Hill Rd, Baltimore, MD 21225). See you there!

If you’d like to know more about Brainfest, check out their website: https://www.brainfest.org.

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Links and Resources

Brain Awareness Week: https://www.brainawareness.org/

Project Bridge: http://www.projbridge.org/

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Credits

Music: ‘Lucky Massive Dangerous’ by Speck

Editing: Michael Dryzer

Intro & Outro: Michael Dryzer and Steven Jerjian

Interviewers: Michael Dryzer and Steven Jerjian

Interviewees: Blake Creighton and Isis Wyche

With help from other members of the Sci’more Podcast team!