NURC 2024 WORKSHOPS
Round 1
Exclusively for our NURC presenters, these workshops provide tips and tricks for a successful research presentation. These skills can be immediately applied to your poster presentations on Day 2 of NURC!
Seminar 1:
Grad or Med School: Applying, Re-Applying, and Insider Perspective
Getting into Research
UBC MINT
BC Alzheimer’s Society
AI in Neuroscience
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UBC MINT is a neurotechnology design team, creating innovations in neuroscience through the use of technology. The workshop gives a deeper dive into how artificial intelligence works, what it’s being used for in neuroscience and provides a deeper look into how MINT uses AI in its upcoming neurorobotics project.
Partnering with people with lived experience of dementia
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The Alzheimer Society of B.C. believe it is critical that people living with dementia and caregivers have opportunities to purposefully participate in a way that recognizes their unique perspectives, experiences and abilities. In this presentation you will learn about the Alzheimer Society of B.C.’s lived experience framework guide and hear the firsthand experiences of one of our Lived Experience Partners, Dr. Jim Mann.
Round 2
Seminar 1:
Grad or Med School: Applying, Re-Applying, and Insider Perspective
Case Competition Presentation
Brain wellness
After Graduation: Career Avenues
Lifestyle-intervention program for people with chronic brain conditions, care partners and healthy agers.
The BC Brain Wellness are leveraging the collective power of clinical care, lifestyle intervention programs, education, and research to design a comprehensive and integrated approach to brain wellness and healthier lifestyle. We support to improve and sustain quality of life for people living with chronic brain conditions, their caregivers, and healthy agers. The program is supported through generous donors and interdisciplinary collaboration with faculties and students.
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Part 2:
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Watch our amazing Case Competition winners Weilan Zhang and Juliana Su present their proposed solution to the problem presented at our UNC Case Competition the other week.
Case Competition Problem: “Technology and the Loneliness epidemic” - With much of the blame for loneliness being put on technology, we’re curious to see if technology can also be a solution.