Bakken Museum Director to speak at BSC Journal Club May 1, 2006

     David Rhees, executive director of The Bakken Museum of Minneapolis, will appear as a guest lecturer to the Brain Sciences Center’s Journal Club on Monday, May 1, 2006. His topic “The Body Electric: From Electric Eels to the Brain Pacemaker,” is apropos for a scholar of electromedical technology and director of an institution that bills itself as “A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life.”

     Rhees, who earned a doctorate in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania and is adjunct assistant professor of history of medicine at the University of Minnesota, teaches a course in electromedical technology in conjunction with the University and the Bakken Museum. Since he assumed the Museum’s directorship in 1992, Rhees has curated many exhibits at the Bakken, including the current “It’s Alive: The Science and Myth of Frankenstein.” Rhees is presently conducting an oral history project on the medical device industry in Minnesota.

Georgopoulos to Deliver U of M Graduate School Commencement Address May 12, 2006
     Brain Sciences Center Director Apostolos Georgopoulos will deliver the commencement address to the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School, Friday, May 12, 2006, 1 p.m., at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis. The title of his address is the “Bright Universe of the Brain.”

     The selection of Graduate School commencement speaker is awarded to the most recent recipient of the University’s Regents Professorship, the highest honor bestowed upon U of M faculty.   In March, Dr. Georgopoulos was presented the Regents Professor certificate and medallion by University President Robert Bruininks.  

     This spring’s Graduate School commencement ceremony is expected to be one of their largest ever, as 650 students and 90 faculty members are expected to participate in the event at the U of M-Twin-Cities' campus.

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