Peter Morgane donates permanent art exhibit to ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ on large brain anatomy
Peter Morgane of Kennebunkport and Professor at the ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, has donated to the ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ a permanent art exhibit on large brain anatomy celebrating more than 25 years of neuroscience research. The exhibit is on display in the lobby of ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s Pickus Center for Biomedical Research, which includes the Cécile Morgane Research Laboratories named in honor of Dr. Morgane’s late wife.
The exhibit includes the work of two artists – Marcellano Obaya of Miami, Florida and Prudence Carter of Atlanta, Georgia – who interpreted from Dr. Morgane’s collection of approximately 2,000 slides, photos and drawings especially of dolphins and porpoises and large whales including sperm whales and humpback whales. The collection grew during his years of research at Harvard Medical School, the Communications Research Institute in Miami, the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass. and ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ.
Dr. Morgane has been a faculty member and researcher in ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ’s College of Osteopathic Medicine's pharmacology department since 1985. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and has garnered more than $4.5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. He continues to focus on research and lectures at UNE periodically to first- and second-year medical students on neuropharmacology and diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.