Upcoming Events

Next NPB club meetings: Wed. Jan 16th and Wed Feb. 6th in Briggs 197. Come listen to great speakers, hang out, and eat!



Monday, June 11, 2007

Pictures from various events this quarter are up on the [Gallery] page!

June 2007

Events
  • End of the Year Bash: This has been a tradition for quite a few years now. The NPB Club throws a party for the NPB Faculty. This year’s theme…FIESTA, and it will be a Mexican fiesta catered by Dos Coyotes! Will be held on Monday June 4th, from 1-3pm in Briggs 197. ATTENDANCE IS MANDITORY (Set up starts at 12pm and cleanup ends at 4pm).

    Meeting
  • There will be no meeting for June!

    May 2007

    Events
  • Cesar Chavez Elementary School Science Festival: May 15th (a Tuesday), from 8am-2pm. We are doing 10 minute presentations to 2nd and 3rd graders. Please contact April if you can be there!

    Meeting
  • We will only be holding elections and auctioning off a Kaplan course of your choice.

    Community Service
  • Sac Food Bank this Sunday. Please email Shannon if you can go.

    Friday, Apr. 20, 2007

    Quick update: the pictures from Dr. Susan Bookheimer's talk are up! Check out the [gallery] for more pics!


    April 2007

    Events
  • April 10th (tuesday), we are having special presenter, Dr. Susan Bookheimer from the UCLA Semel Institute come and speak to us from 7-8pm in Briggs 197. Dr. Susan Bookheimer is Clinical Neuropsychologist and Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology. Dr. Bookheimer specializes in functional brain imaging with PET and functional MRI. Her work has focused on the organization of language and memory in the brain, in healthy adults and children and in neurologic conditions and developmental disorders.
  • PICNIC DAY! April 14th (saturday). We are in room 2041a in the Sci Lab Building. We are scheduled from 11-3. So actually we need to start setting up at 10am. Please contact April if you can be there or if you have ideas for activities (The spin chair, the egg experiment, trivia questions, and brain models)!
  • Pizza and Beer night: Friday April 20th. Meet at Woodstock’s at 7pm. The club is paying for the food!

    Meeting
  • This month's meeting will be held on the 11th at 7pm in 197 Briggs! Our speaker will be Dr. Vismara is the co-founder, and a board member, of the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California, Davis. This multidisciplinary organization brings together researchers, clinicians, educators, parents, and children to investigate and serve as a national resource for autism and other neurodevelopment and learning disorders. Dr. Vismara also works as a health-related policy consultant for Senator John L. Burton, President Pro Tempore, California State Senate.

    Community Service
  • “Time off for Caregivers” at the Davis Senior Center. As an officer, YOU NEED TO BE THERE. It's on April 28th from 9:45-3pm. It's a lot of fun and they feed us!

    March 2007

    Meeting
  • Hi everyone, the March NPB Club meeting is Wednesday, 7-8pm in Briggs 197.

    Our speaker will be Leah Krubitzer:

    Leah is a professor at UCD and a researcher (PI) at the UCDavis Center for Neuroscience. Her work examines the anatomical connections and electrophysiological properties of neurons in the neocortex, the portion of the brain responsible for perception, cognition, learning, and memory. She earned a BS in Speech Pathology, with High Honors, at Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD in Psychology at Vanderbilt University. After receiving her doctorate she went to Australia to study the brains of primitive mammals. In 1998 Leah received a MacArthur Fellowship for $240,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She was one of 29 people chosen nationwide to receive the fellowship, popularly known as "genius awards" because of the caliber of the winners and their work. Leah is a very important and extremely interesting person in the field of Neuroscience. So don't miss out! We will be having TOGO's sandwiches and bottled water...and maybe a game. Hope to see you all there!

    Community Service
  • Saturday March 31st at 10am to Sunday April 1st at 10am. It takes place on Toomey Field.

    Relay 4 life is: "a community gathering where everyone can participate in the fight against cancer. teams of people camp out...and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times of the event -because cancer never sleeps. Relays are an over night event.

    Relay for life brings together millions of people to raise money to help prevent cancer, save lives, and diminish suffering from the disease."

    Contact: Jenny or Sarah at (916)947-6515 or relay4life@ucdavis.edu or log on to: www.ascevents.org/relay/ca/ucdavis

    Contact Jessica (jmvincent@ucdavis.edu) if you want to make a donation!

    Friday, Feb. 23, 2007

    Thanks to everyone that went to the seniors' dance! Pictures are up on the [Gallery] page!


    Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007

    MCB vs. NPB Bowling Pictures are up on the [Gallery] page!
    February 2007

    Activities
    Bowling Challenge! MCB club vs. NPB club! Tues., February 20th 8pm!

    Community Service
    Our next community service event will take place on February 23rd, 2pm- 4pm, at the Davis Senior Center at 646 A Street (corner of 7th & A). The senior Center is putting on a Senior Dance. The NPB Club will provide some food and refreshments and dance with the seniors!

    If you can't make it to the dance, a second event is the very next day, Sat, Feb. 24 from 10am - 3pm. This event is called "Time Off For Caregivers" and we will again basically be charged with entertaining the seniors. This one is also located at the Davis Senior Center. Both programs are open to us bringing food for everyone. The "Caregivers" event is also open to any activity ideas you might have for everyone to do. For more information, [download this].

    Both of these events are later then our usually event times so no "it's too early" excuses! :) The woman in charge of the "Caregiver" event needs to know how many people will be attending the Feb. 24th event. So, you need to e-mail [Shannon] and let her know which event(s) you can attend A reminder e-mail or two will be sent as it gets closer to the events so you don't forget. I hope to see you all there!

    Meetings
    The February NPB Club meeting is on February 7th, in Briggs 197, from 7pm-8pm. We will be having speakers from several Davis and Sacramento Clinics. If you're pre-med you are going to need some clinical experience for med-school. The speakers will be representing the Shifa, Imani and Willow Project clinics. Come find out what these clinics are about, and how you can become involved.



    2006 Fall Quarter Events

    Welcome Back BBQ -- Tuesday October 3rd 2006 we will be holding a BBQ for all returning students and incoming freshmen. It will be held in front of Briggs Hall from 11:00am to 1:00pm with free hot dogs, drinks and cookies! Come check us out to see what we have instore for the new quarter.

    Halloween Lunch Potluck -- Tuesday October 31st 2006 all club members and friends are invited to our halloween lunch potluck. It will be held in Briggs Hall, Room 197 from 11:00am to 1:00 pm. Don't forget your to bring your costume and something yummy to eat!

    Finals Study Session -- After our regularly scheduled meeting on December 6th, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, we will be holding a group study session for members and friends. It will be held in Briggs Hall, Room 197.

    Presentation of Graduate Studies at The Rockefeller University 11/3/05 Noon in Briggs 197

    Presentation by Sidney Strickland, Professor and Dean, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York.This is a great chance for people interested in Ph.D. M.D. or a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. There is even some free food involved if that is what it takes to get you there. For questions contact [Jeff Coble]

    Monday, Apr. 12, 2005

    A big thank you to all those that came and supported the American Cancer Society Relay for life this weekend. Even if you were part of a different team (shame on you!) thank you for your support. Pictures are up at the image gallery. Oh, and make sure to give Debbie a hard time about her water balloon handling skills!


    Monday, Mar. 7, 2005

    The rivalry is over! NPB Club dominated MCB Club during this weekend's bowling event. Check out the pics over at the image gallery.


    Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2005

    Hey folks! HAPPY NERD DAY!!! WOOT! Check out this image of some of the nerds seen today!


    Friday, Feb. 18, 2005

    Thanks to everyone who helped out at the Sacramento Food Bank this weekend. Pictures of the event are posted along with your fellow NPBers showing just how they feel about NPB! Check out the [gallery] for more pics!


    Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2005

    Updating from within the NPB Meeting tonight! In case you missed it, there are some new events coming up!

    Upcoming event dates:

    February 12th- Kaplan Test Drive at the Davis Kaplan branch starting at 9am.

    February 13th – Sacramento Food Bank at the Sacramento Food Bank from 730am-1pm.

    We are also offering sign ups for Project CATEUS. This is a project being led by Dr Weidner involving an international collaboration with the university of Barcelona and UC Davis.

    Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004

    Quick update: the pictures from today's events are up! Check out the [gallery] for more pics!


    Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004

    What a day! Today was the Relay For Life at Woodland and everybody worked really hard! So to everyone that came thank you and we hope to see all of you (and more of you!) at the next event! The photos from the events will be up soon. But in the meantime, rest up everyone here comes another quarter! Check out the [gallery] for more pics!


    Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2004

    Today was FRESHMAN AND TRANSFERS ORIENTATION DAY for the NPB CLUB. The turn out today was really great and it should give the new incoming freshman and transfers basic idea of what to expect from being an NPB major and being in the NPB CLUB. Don't forget to listen to what Dr. Goldberg and Debbie Abbott had said and use your resources! Office hours and group study sessions are a valuable tools in succeeding in this major, particularly in the NPB area. You may use this website to check on upcoming events as well as the message boards to contact one another. If there are any problems, feel free to contact the webmaster for technical support.