Governor Proclaims March "Brain Awareness Month" in Georgia

Each year during Brain Awarenesss Month (March), the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience and the Center for Behavioral Neuroscence team with area scientists to visit local classrooms and share the importance of the brain with students and teachers.

On March 7, 2007, they received applause for their efforts when Governor Sonny Perdue made history as he proclaimed March "Brain Awareness Month" in Georgia, making it the first state to officially dedicate a month to brain awareness.

CBN members and BAM Coordinators Kim Maguschak of Emory University and Michael Black of Georgia State University, worked tirelessly to send volunteers to more than 140 classrooms in the Atlanta metro area to introduce neuroscience to more than 5, 000 students.

"We want to thank all of our volunteers who made this year's visits such a success. We received the largest number of unsolicited positive feedback from teachers and continued our multi-year increase in the number of schools and students that we visited, " Black said.

The 2007 BAM classroom visit program has been so successful that visits have been scheduled well into May.

Photo (from left): Kerry Ressler and Rebecca Rosen of Emory University, CBN Director Elliott Albers of Georgia State University, Governor Perdue, and Kyle Frantz, Anne Murphy, Laura Carruth and Michael Black of Georgia State University. Not pictured: Kim Maguschak of Emory University.

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