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Board Member Ken Kornberg co-authored a book titled, Greener Labs: Sustainable Laboratory Design ( ISBN978-4-86345-050-9 C3052 ) . The book was published in April and is available only in Japanese via Maruzen.
Construction on a new National Intrepid Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (NICoE) is due for completion this summer at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. This 72,000 square foot Department of Defense (DOD) facility will provide outpatient diagnostic and treatment services, and conduct research and test new protocols for comprehensive training and education to assist patients, providers and families.
Beginning in July 2008, ANFA began conversations with the DOD about sharing its knowledge from research taking place at UCSD Calit2 on navigation using conventional and prototype EEG devices in conjunction with virtual reality. On separate occasions, DOD representatives have received Board members Eduardo Macagno and Frederick Marks, project scientists Peter Otto and Eve Edelstein, and Scott Makeig, Director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. More talks are expected in the near future.
On November 4th, 2009 Board Member Fred Marks presented at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC as part of the a U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program.
Board Member John Zeisel, PhD, and colleague Steven Post gave a lecture titled, "Is Feng Shui in the Mind?" as part of the Brainwave Series hosted by the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
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Former Board Member Esther Sternberg, M.D., released a new book titled, "Healing Spaces", and is the host of a new PBS series, "The Science of Healing".
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