UVA Parents Program (https://giving.virginia.edu/where-to-give/parents-fund) recently awarded UVA chapter of the Nu Rho Psi National Neuroscience Honor Society with $2,296.00 for their proposed outreach project. With additional support from UVA Student Council (https://www.uvastudco.com), our local Nu Rho Psi chapter will organize and host local Peabody Middle School for a spring neuroscience field trip to UVA, where students will have the opportunity to attend UVA Nu Rho Psi student presentations, perform a hands-on sheep brain dissection, and tour numerous UVA neuroscience laboratories.  

Special thanks to the Treasurer of Nu Rho Psi, Jason Borst (class 2024, Cog Sci major), who applied for these funds. Our local chapter (https://nurhopsiatuva.wixsite.com/nrpuva) was founded by Isabelle Witteveen (class of 2020) and Sakar Budhathoki (class of 2020) in 2020. Prof Xiaorong Liu has been serving as the faculty adviser since 2019. The current executive team of Nu Rho Psi, Ashley Ban (class of 2023, Cog Sci major) and Joelle Nilak (class of 2023, Neurosci major), Kathryn Chung (class of 2024, neuroscience/biology major), Abhi Verma (class of 2024, neuroscience major), Hannah Tuma (class of 2023, computer science/cognitive science major), are extremely grateful for these funds for their support to promote this organization and its students at UVA and beyond.