What They Built at Brain Camp

At 'Brain Camp,' Building a Field With Lectures, Lunches, and Lounging on the Beach 1

Cap Pannell for The Chronicle Review

By Jon Bardin

Like so many love stories, this one started with a cup of wine and a guitar.

It was late on a summer's night in 2001, and a group of neuroscience graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from around the country and the world were spread across an oversize balcony on the campus of Dartmouth College. They had all given up their summers to come to Hanover, N.H., and spend their days listening to lectures and their nights discussing and debating them as part of the 14th annual Cognitive