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Brain Awareness Night 2013

Founded by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, Brain Awareness Week is designed to unite families, schools, and communities in a worldwide celebration of the brain. Each March since 1996, neuroscientists around the world have ventured out of their labs and into schools, museums and malls to share their knowledge …

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Mentoring Matters

Our city is filled with opportunities for mentorship. Check resources like the Grizzlies’ TEAM UP 100 Mentors in 50 Days Campaign, or …

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Many Paths to the Future

Today should have been my last day at everywhereelse.co, the startup conference which collected entrepreneurs from Memphis and beyond to talk about …

The Art of the Art Teacher

What started as doodles on the margins of assignments in elementary school has led to Memphis artist and educator Jamond Bullock emerging …

What is the Impact of an Idea?

There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come. We say that often these days at The Urban Child …

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Perceptions from The Urban Child Institude: Everything is Important

  Parents often ask us what matters most in the raising of their young children. Our answer: Everything. And the best child-rearing …

Poverty Affects the Future of Memphis Children

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton recently talked to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam about toxic stress, brain development, and epigenetics. The mayor may …

Classically Trained and Locally Grown

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform this Saturday and Sunday at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, breathing life into works …

What Connects You?

Each Thursday, MemphisConnect publishes a piece by recent graduates of the Leadership Academy’s Fellows Program. Writing about what moves them to live …

Amazing Magnet Brain and the Exploding Month

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how amazing brains are, hidden as they are behind the eyes and between the ears, where we …

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