DeLand, FL – Stetson University is holding a free and open-to-the-public event to talk about how sleep impacts learning and memory.
This event takes place on March 23 at 7:00 PM in Stetson University’s Gillespie Museum, 34 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand.
This presentation is part of an ongoing event at Stetson University called Science Cafés. These presentations invite everyone to engage and talk about science with no pressure.
In honor of Brain Awareness week, March 13 – 19, neuroscientist, professor, and psychology department chair at Stetson University, Camille Tessitore King, will present her research titled “To Sleep, Perchance to Remember.” King addresses how sleeping less hurts learning and memory.
“The inability to remember affects all of us,” says King. “Understanding more fully sleep’s role in memory processing might lead to new approaches to help students learn more effectively and older people hold onto their memories as they age.”
King is an award-winning professor, researcher, and scientist with a doctorate in biological psychology from the University of Virginia. Among her accomplishments are the Hand Award for Excellence in Research, a Faculty Advisor Research Grant from the international psychology honor society, and the William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011 from Stetson.
“For years Professor King has guided the Gillespie Museum in its annual observance of Brain Awareness Week,” says Stetson’s Science Café event director Karen Cole, Ph.D. “We’re eager for her lively and well-researched conversation about a critical issue for all of us.”
For more information or to register for King’s presentation, call 386-822-7330.
For information about future Stetson Science Cafés, email Karen Cole at kcole@stetson.edu or visit the Gillespie Museum’s website.
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