Center for Neuroscience & Society

Looking for the Center for Neuroscience & Society website? After 16 years of productive collaboration in research, teaching, and outreach, our Center is closing its doors.

We are grateful to our faculty, from 7 of Penn’s Schools (Arts and Sciences, Communications, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Wharton), who made the Center a success and to our student members - from the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience graduate certificate program and the Neuroscience and Society undergraduate and graduate fellows – who brought their ideas and energy to the Center. We are also grateful to then-Vice Provost Steve Fluharty and his successor, Dawn Bonnell, who generously supported the Center, along with the federal agencies and private foundations that further enabled our growth

University Centers, including ours, have more specific missions than University Departments, and are by design less permanent. Our mission was to establish “Neuroscience and Society” as a field of study and we can now say “Mission Accomplished.” We look forward to seeing this field continue to grow and flourish with the support of talented new people and far-sighted funders. And we’re not disappearing without a trace! Some of the CNS’s functions will be resituated in Penn’s MindCORE.