In issues surrounding mental health awareness and an aging population, neuroscience is a field that is booming in the workforce – and at Carleton University.

“Neuroscience is an area of growing public interest,” says John Stead, chair of Carleton’s Department of Neuroscience. “And we’re a new department, so we have an energy to us.”

“We are the first university in the country to have a department in neuroscience that offers its own undergraduate programs,” says Stead. “There are a huge number of new courses and, by this Christmas, we will have taught 12 brand new courses in two and a half years.”

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