The University of Scranton will host the 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee, an event that offers high school students a chance to test their neuroscience knowledge in an academic competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is no cost to enter the Brain Bee, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21,\u00a0at\u00a0room 133 inside the Loyola Science Center. Registration is currently open and will close after Feb. 20.\u00a0The\u00a0registration form<\/a>\u00a0can be found on the\u00a0event\u2019s website<\/a>. The event is open to high school students currently enrolled in Grades 9-12 and between the ages of 13-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sponsored by the University\u2019s neuroscience program in the Department of Biology, the Brain Bee covers topics including emotions, intelligence, memory,\u00a0sleep\u00a0and stress.\u00a0<\/p>\n The winner of this regional bee \u2014 dedicated to the memory of J. Timothy Cannon, Ph.D., founder of the University\u2019s neuroscience program and a longtime Brain Bee coordinator and judge \u2014 receives a $400 prize, a $1,000 scholarship to The University of Scranton and also advances to the National Brain Bee, held Saturday, April 25, at the University of California, Irvine.\u00a0<\/p>\n Three University of Scranton biology professors will serve as NEPA Brain Bee Judges: Gary Kwiecinski, Ph.D.; Marc Seid, Ph.D.; and Robert F. Waldeck, director of the neuroscience program and NEPA Brain Bee coordinator.\u00a0<\/p>\n Previous\u00a0top-three\u00a0finishers have attended local schools such as Wyoming Area, Wallenpaupack, Abington Heights and Scranton Prep, as well as schools from other parts of Pennsylvania and other East Coast states.\u00a0<\/p>\n For more information or to register online, visit the\u00a0NEPA Brain Bee\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0or contact Dr. Waldeck at 570-941-4324 or email\u00a0robert.waldeck@scranton.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton will host the 25th annual Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee, an event that offers high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[48836,48835,48834,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-100092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-academic-competition","tag-brain-bee","tag-neuroscience","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}