The Evolving Face of Neuroscience: The Role of Women and Globalization

Carol Barnes is a Regents’ Professor in the departments of psychology and neurology, and is the Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging at the University of Arizona. Barnes is a past president of SfN, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected foreign member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Her research program seeks to understand how the brain changes during the aging process and what the functional consequences of these changes are on information processing and memory in the elderly. She also participates in several underrepresented minority training programs, including the McNair Achievement Program, Minority Access to Research Careers, and NIH’s Disadvantaged High School Student Research Program.