The Brain Awareness Campaign could get nowhere without the generous support of its sponsors and partners. These come in the form of monetary donations and from volunteer efforts by students at the University of Tennessee.
Student Organizations
- The Advancement of Neuroscience at UT
This undergraduate club was founded in the early 2010s for the purpose of connecting students interested in neuro-related fields of study. Each year since, they have continued their mission by leading events of “Brain Awareness Week.”
- Psychology Graduate Student Association (PGSA)
In 2018, the PGSA joined the fold to help bring The Brain Awareness Campaign to reach more on campus and in the community as a whole. In its first year as an officially recognized organization at UT, PGSA secured the funds necessary to invite Professor Robert Sapolsky, including from the University of Tennessee and NeuroScience Associates, among others. PGSA was also generously awarded a grant by The Pat Summitt Foundation to ensure and extend these efforts even further, which served as the basis for extending “Brain Awareness Week” into a month-long affair.
The Ask A Scientist club at UT is affiliated with the National Ask A Scientist Organization, a non-profit organization with a mission to promote, improve the effectiveness of, and to enhance the public’s understanding of the importance of science in continuing and establishing a technologically advanced and sustainable society. Ask A Scientist prides itself on advocating for science initiatives and cooperating with other clubs whose missions align with their own.
Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology with the goal being to encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship of the individual members in all fields, particularly in psychology, and to advance the science of psychology. In 2018, UT’s chapter of Psi Chi joined the Brain Awareness Campaign for the first time, leading multiple events in their efforts to better inform the university and community about psychological and brain health.
Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM is an organization of students, post-docs, faculty and staff dedicated to advising the Commission for Women at The University of Tennessee on important issues relating specifically to women in the sciences, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty/staff levels at UTK.
The BCMB GSO is a student organization at UT made up of graduate students of the Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology department. Their organization’s mission is to represent and serve the graduate students in their department by facilitating communication between students and faculty and providing opportunities for intellectual and social activities.
The UT chapter of ASBMB shares its parent society’s mission to advance the science of biochemistry and molecular biology and to promote the understanding of the molecular nature of life processes through the support of science education at all levels and promoting of diversity of individuals entering the scientific work force, among many other things.
CDRG at UT is actually a conglomerate of developmental psychology researchers at the University of Tennessee that includes faculty of the Psychology Department. The graduate and undergraduate students of this group, however, lead the charge in efforts to promote safety and education for young children and mothers. CDRG consists of the members of five research laboratories at UT which examine many aspects of development from birth to early childhood.
The goal of FOSEP is to foster discussions, debates, and opportunities at the intersection of science and policy. FOSEP provides its members of knowledge of events and opportunities to do just that on a regular basis. They have hosted writing competitions and frequently written summaries of online discussions/debates on the app, Slack.
Nu Rho Psi is the National Honor Society in Neuroscience. The chapter at UT is newly formed and steadily growing in size. It’s membership contains mostly junior and senior undergraduates of neuroscience, but extends also to graduate students in the field.
