John O'Keefe, CCNY Class of 1963, and a 2014 Nobel Laureate, will lecture at his alma mater, May 28.
In his first return to his alma mater since receiving a Nobel Prize last fall, John O’Keefe presents the inaugural Professor Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture, Thursday, May 28 at The City College of New York. His talk, 4 p.m. in NAC room 0/201, will be entitled “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: How we got here and where we are going.”
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O’Keefe’s lecture will explain the latest cutting-edge research on the hippocampus, a small but crucial part of the brain that plays an important role in memory and spatial navigation.
O’Keefe’s co-discovery of cells "that constitute a positioning system in the brain” earned the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A 1963 alumnus, he is CCNY’s 10th Nobel Laureate.
A day after his lecture, the Harlem-born O’Keefe will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Science at CCNY’s 169th Commencement Exercises on campus.
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Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture; the School of Education; the Grove School of Engineering; the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. U.S. News, Princeton Review and Forbes all rank City College among the best colleges and universities in the United States.