Neuroscience Web Site Wins Prestigious Science Prize

Juggling before live audiences is one of the ways that University of Washington researcher Eric Chudler sparks interest in the study of the brain.

“What is my brain doing that allows me to juggle?” he says he asks students at the school presentations he gives regularly.

Chudler's Web site, Neuroscience for Kids, is designed to work the same way. “What the Web site has is a number of hooks that can grab students to try to spark their interest,” he says.

Because of its effectiveness at doing just that—150 million different files are downloaded from the site each year—Neuroscience for Kids is being awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). Science is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society.

To learn more about the prize and Chudler’s Web site, read the full story.