Conference: Research at the Interface of the Life Sciences with the Arts, to be held in Washington, DC - December, 2010

该奖项为组织一次“生命科学与艺术交界处的研究”提供了资金。专业人士将召开一个为期两天的会议，探讨科学(特别是生命科学)与艺术和人文学科在研究和学术互动方面的潜力。会议将在华盛顿特区举行，预计将由国家艺术捐赠基金(NEA)共同赞助。会议将聚集大约25名与会者，他们将讨论他们工作的影响，和/或在他们之间形成合作，以解决在重大公共问题上运用科学和艺术/人文专业知识的问题。潜在讨论主题的例子包括作者如何参与一个人的注意力回路和模仿记忆；舞者如何探索身体动作可以用来演示和研究神经生物学概念的方法等。这次会议将把看似不同的学科聚集在一起，找到一些共同点和互补性，希望推动这两个领域的发展。预计生物学和艺术/人文专家都将参加，重点是智力、性别和种族多样性。其中一位来自神经科学，另一位来自艺术/人文学科，他们将识别和挑选个人，以创造正确的平衡，以增加进行富有成效的讨论的可能性。私人投资机构希望激励性的对话将导致更广泛的工具，艺术家/人文主义者和科学家都可以使用。这一论述的一个可能结果是使用视觉和表演艺术以及人文学科向公众传播科学。欲了解更多信息，请通过christopher.comer@umontana.edu联系克里斯·科默博士，或通过emlovell@marlboro.edu联系Ellen McCulluch-Lovell博士。

This award provides funding to organize a conference on "Research at the Interface of the Life Sciences with the Arts." The PIs will assemble a two-day conference to explore the potential for research and scholarly interaction of science (especially the life sciences) with the arts and the humanities. The conference will be held in Washington, D.C., with the expected co-sponsorship by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Conference will bring together approximately 25 participants, who will discuss the implications of their work, and/or form collaborations between and amongst themselves, in order to tackle problems in which both the scientific and the arts/humanities expertise are brought to bear on important public issues. Examples of potential discussion topics include how authors engage a person's attentional circuitry and mimic memory; how dancers explore methods by which body movements can be used to demonstrate and investigate concepts of neurobiology, etc. This Conference will bring seemingly disparate disciplines together to find some commonalities and complementarities, in hopes of advancing both fields. Both biology and arts/humanities experts are expected to participate, with a focus on intellectual, and gender and ethnic, diversity. The PIs, one coming from neuroscience and the other from arts/humanities, will identify and select individuals to create the right balance in order to increase the likelihood for productive discussions. The PIs hope that stimulating dialogues would lead to a broader array of tools that both artists/humanists and scientists could use. A likely outcome of this discourse is the use of visual and performing arts and humanities in communicating science to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Chris Comer at christopher.comer@umontana.edu, or Dr. Ellen McCulluch-Lovell at emlovell@marlboro.edu.