March 10, 2022
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
DR. JASON ASKVIG, associate professor, Biology
jaskvig@cord.edu
CANDACE HARMON, Media Relations
charmon1@cord.edu
LECTURE EXPLORES SLEEP, DREAMS, AND MEMORY
Concordia invites the community to the 2022 Nornes Lectureship in Neuroscience featuring Dr. Robert Stickgold. The presentation, “Sleep, Memory and Dreamings: A Unified Model,” will be at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center, with a dessert reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
The event will also be livestreamed at https://video.ibm.com/channel/concordia-college.
Stickgold is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Stickgold combines imaging, signaling, and behavioral research to study the role of sleep and dreams in memory.
This is the 7th annual Nornes Lectureship in Neuroscience. The program was the vision of Dr. Howard O. Nornes for the benefit of Concordia students and faculty and the broader community. Nornes obtained a doctorate in neuroscience from Purdue University and did postdoctoral research at the University of Lund, Sweden, and the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany. He is professor emeritus of neuroscience at Colorado State University and continues to teach courses in neuroplasticity of the adult brain. His major research interest was the development and regeneration of the nervous system.
The Lectureship was created through generous gifts from the Howard ’53 and Sonia (Nelsen) ’58, and the LaVern ’54 and Lois (Austin) ’56 Nornes families.
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