Gray Matters: The Brain Show

The Partnership in Education is a program located at Duquesne University that is passionate about improving STEM education and health literacy. Funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, we specialize in creating innovative, hands-on educational products that make science engaging and fun for teachers, their students, and learners of all ages.
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Summary

In this blast-from-the-past sci-fi adventure, join Dr. Blake and his guests from Planet Axon for a mind-bending ride through the biology of the brain. How do impulses reach the brain? What is gray matter? Why do brain cells communicate? Learn about the difference between “brain” and “mind,” and explore the way we humans perceive the world, through the eyes of a very perplexed alien race!

Called a “happy collision of art and science” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the film Gray Matters was created by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative. In 2000, it debuted at the Carnegie Science Center as an interactive multimedia planetarium show, where the audience collaborated to determine the level of zoom!



Resource Contact:
Pollock, John A – PhD Professor and Co-Director of the Chronic Pain Research Consortium
Director of the Partnership in Education
Biological Sciences
Duquesne University