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

该奖项提供资金，以组织一次会议“研究在接口的生命科学与艺术。“PI将召集一个为期两天的会议，探讨科学（特别是生命科学）与艺术和人文科学的研究和学术互动的潜力。会议将在华盛顿，华盛顿特区举行，预计由国家艺术基金会（NEA）共同赞助。会议将汇集大约25名与会者，他们将讨论他们工作的影响，和/或形成彼此之间的合作，以解决科学和艺术/人文专业知识对重要公共问题的影响。潜在的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，等等。生物学和艺术/人文学专家都将参加，重点是智力、性别和种族多样性。PI，一个来自神经科学，另一个来自艺术/人文学科，将识别和选择个人，以创造正确的平衡，以增加富有成效的讨论的可能性。PI希望刺激对话将导致艺术家/人文主义者和科学家可以使用的更广泛的工具。这种讨论的一个可能的结果是使用视觉和表演艺术和人文科学向公众传播。欲了解更多信息，请联系克里斯·科默博士，网址是christopher.comer@ umontana.edu，或埃伦·麦卡卢奇·洛弗尔博士，网址是emlovell@marlboro.edu。

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.