"The Human Brain and the Human Mind" is the topic of the spring semester 1998 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, which are sponsored by the Penn State Eberly College of Science for the enjoyment and education of the residents of the central Pennsylvania area.

The free lectures take place on eight consecutive Saturday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. in the Kern Graduate Center auditorium on the Penn State University Park Campus.

January 10, "Signaling Between Cells in the Brain," by Andy Ewing, professor of chemistry and adjunct professor of neuroscience and anatomy at Penn State

January 17, "Learning and Memory," by Jonathan R. Day, assistant professor of biology at Penn State

January 24, "Intellectual Development Throughout the Adult Life Span," by K. Warner Schaie, Evan Pugh Professor of Health and Human Development and director of the Penn State Gerontology Center

January 31, "Genetics of Human Behavior," by Gerald E. McClearn, Evan Pugh Professor of Health and Human Development and director of the Penn State Center for Developmental and Health Genetics

February 7, "Genetics of Human Diseases," by Ellen Hess, assistant professor of neuroscience and anatomy at Penn State

February 14, "Attention Deficit Disorders," by Robert E. Kennedy, clinical psychologist and neuropsychological consultant at Centre Community Hospital

February 21, "Schizophrenia," by Anthony A. Grace, professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh

February 28, " Medicines for the Mind," by Joan M. Lakoski, associate professor of pharmacology and anesthesia at Penn State

Financial support for the1998 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science is provided by Pfizer Inc. Kern Graduate Center is located on Curtin Road at the intersection with Burrowes Road next to the Nittany Lion Shrine. Ample parking is available at the Nittany Parking Deck on Fischer Road near the Nittany Lion Inn. For more information, contact the Penn State Eberly College of Science Office of Public Information by telephone at 863-8453 or 863-4682, by e-mail at science@psu.edu, or by following the links at http://www.science.psu.edu/ on the World Wide Web.

This site is maintained by Barbara K. Kennedy (science@psu.edu)