Douglas College is brewing up a flavourful fundraiser this month.
October is Craft Beer Month in B.C., and the college is taking this theme and hopping with it for its annual A Class Act Fundraiser. Now in its 16th year, A Class Act has embraced Ocktoberfest and all things Bavarian tonight (Friday, Oct. 18) with samplings of German beers and wines, along with German music and Bavarian food.
A Class Act is being held at the Coquitlam campus of Douglas College, from 7 to 10 p.m. and is hosted by the Douglas College Foundation. The event includes live and silent auctions. Tickets are $45 and can be reserved by calling 604-777-6176 or by emailing [email protected].
On the brain
The fascinating aspects of the brain and how it works will be the topic at an upcoming seminar at New Westminster Secondary School.
Parents, students, staff, and community members are invited to attend a presentation hosted by the FastForword Consortium and featuring renowned neuroscientist Dr. Urs Ribary,who will be speaking on the fascinating world of the brain and how it affects how we perceive and process all of the sensory information from our outside world.
The presentation is called: Window into the Human Brain – How We Perceive and Process the Outside World, and is on at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov, 5, at the New Westminster Secondary School library.
There will also be discussion on how the brain alters its behaviour in cognitive abnormalities such as dyslexia and processing disorders, says an update on the New Westminster school district’s website.
Ribary received his doctorate degree in neuroscience and neuropharmacology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland. He was a professor and director of a functional brain-imaging centre at New York University Medical Center in New York. In 2007, he was awarded the endowed B.C. LEEF leadership chair in cognitive neuroscience in childhood health and development and professorship at SFU.
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