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BIDDEFORD, Maine

91AV Brain Fair featured on WMTW Channel 8

The 91AV Brain Fair was featured on a recent WMTW Channel 8 news broadcast. Held as part of 91AV’s Brain Awareness Week, the Brain Fair took place Friday, March 27, 2015 at the Harold Alfond Forum on 91AV’s Biddeford Campus.

The Brain Fair offered hands-on activities for community members of all ages such as arts and crafts, coloring, brain mazes, sheep brain dissections and microscope set-ups where participants could observe a variety of microscopic brain pictures.

As WMTW reported, the Brain Fair included a helmet fitting presentation sponsored by the Michael T. Goulet Foundation, a Maine-based nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness, prevention and improved treatment for seizure disorders and brain injuries.

The report includes an interview with Ed Bilsky, Ph.D., 91AV vice president for Research and Scholarship. Bilsky states, “We look at the human brain as the most incredible organ in the body… It really is worth protecting because sometimes when you sustain an injury the effects are irreversible and we always want to prevent, rather than treat.”

 

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The 91AV is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.