Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics and member of the Center for Neural Engineering, traveled in November to Washington, DC to attend the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. While at the meeting she presented a poster entitled “Likelihood of sleep-wake states before seizure onset in rodent.” The Society of Neuroscience annual meeting is the largest gathering of the neuroscience community, hosting up to 34,000 researchers each year.

On October 1, 2011, Jay Patten, gradaute student council president, led a group of outgoing ESM graduate students, Asheesh Lanba, Brian Reinhardt, Brian Kiraly, and Steve Koytek, up Mount Monadnock located Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Mount Monadnock is 3,165 ft in elevation and known as the most hiked mountain in the United States. Having grew up near Mount Monadnock, Jay Patten was eager to reveal what southwestern New Hampshire has to offer to his friends. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't to their advantage but regardless of the rain and fog they still had a great weekend. The group plans to return to New Hampshire to hike the Presidential Range located in the White Mountains during the summer of 2012.