Neuroscience Graduate Forum
The Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP) at USC includes 80 full-time students of widely varied backgrounds with broad-ranging interests and pursuits. The graduate students constitute a vigorous group and are proactive in providing input to and leadership for the program through their student-run organization, Neuroscience Graduate Forum (NGF). Students and faculty members together constitute an engaged community of scholars whose interactions are enhanced by weekly seminars, journal club activities, and annual symposia and off-site neuroscience retreats. In addition, group social and recreational activities take advantage of the multicultural vibrancy and diversity of Los Angeles and its surroundings.
A committee of graduate students organizes an in-house Neuroscience Graduate Student Symposium every spring in which all talks and poster presentations are given by students. It is an extremely popular and successful event that is attended by all students and faculty in the program, as well as visiting prospective graduate students. The program for the 2006 Symposium (PDF) included a stimulating selection of talks by current graduate students studying diverse aspects of Neuroscience.
Pages in this section
Graduate Student Directory
2009 Graduate Student Directory (Word)
Hello from Wendy Knowlton, the 2009 NGF Czarina
Hello! My name is Wendy Knowlton and I am the head, or 'Czarina,' of the Neuroscience Graduate Forum (NGF) at USC. The goal of NGF is to foster a supportive community among students of the Neuroscience Graduate Program. As Czarina, I act as a liaison between the graduate students and faculty, representing students’ interests at faculty meetings. The major functions of NGF are to aid first year students by providing student mentors, addressing any concerns of students in the program, and exploring different aspects of a career in neuroscience. We also have many social events throughout the year to get students out of the lab and face-to-face and to recruit new students. Head over to the NGF website to learn more about our organization and check out the calendar of upcoming events. Neuroscience Graduate Forum (NGF) here at USC. Feel free to email me at any time (wknowlto@usc.edu )if you have any questions.
