Grant Funds New Learning Center at UM

The Big Sky Brain Project, a collaboration between the University of Montana’s Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience and spectrUM Discovery Area, recently received a five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund a learning center called the brainzone that will feature four hands-on exhibits, a computer lab and a working laboratory aimed at increasing science literacy and interest among k-12 students. The new exhibit will be housed in a future spectrum location off campus set to open in the fall of 2013.