# Events and Activities ## Events and Activities The Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative has held a variety of public events over the years, including distinguished lectures, interdisciplinary panels, and movie discussions. These are advertised on our website and elsewhere well ahead of such events, which vary from year to year. MBB also offers several annual events for undergraduates: an undergraduate symposium, a research showcase that highlights the work of MBB seniors, and a senior recognition ceremony. Closely related to MBB program offerings are the activities of the Harvard Undergraduate Mind Brain Behavior (HUMBB) student organization; be sure to check out its [website](https://www.humbb.org). ![Abstract artwork showing a green brain-like organic form centered against a fiery red-orange background, creating an intense, surreal mood.](/sites/g/files/omnuum13266/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2026-09/Good%20Egg%20III%20for%20sylvia.jpg?h=a097f67e&itok=QFl7oD1D) ## expand\_more Open all sections Close all sections ### Undergraduate Symposium Overview expand\_more The annual MBB Undergraduate Symposium offers students a chance to investigate, both in both theoretical and concrete ways, how creative new research possibilities may emerge at the frontiers of the different fields concerned with mind, brain, and behavior. It is designed for the junior year and as such serves as a midway fulcrum in your education, following up on your disciplinary training in your specific track and your exposure to a range of MBB issues through Psychology 1 and Neuroscience 80. The symposium develops out of the perspective that animates MBB: we cannot adequately address the great intellectual questions and social challenges we confront with a single approach; rather, we must consider them from multiple perspectives. Scholarly disciplines emerge, evolve, converge, merge, and disappear as the problems that motivate them change. Each discipline is a kind of toolbox that provides a unique theoretical orientation, language, and methodology for generating and solving problems. One of the most exciting moments in the life of a discipline happens when boundaries become more porous or shift to make room for ideas and techniques from other fields, and we begin to see new ways to tackle old problems. Each symposium models this interdisciplinary enterprise through exploring a topic that currently engages a broad range of mind brain behavior researchers. Each year's symposium examines a different theme. ### Undergraduate Symposium (Current Year) expand\_more Information forthcoming ### Undergraduate Symposium (Previous Years) expand\_more [2025-2026: How Early Adversity Gets Under the Skin](/event/mbb-undergraduate-symposium-2026-how-early-adversity-gets-under-skin "MBB UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM 2026: HOW EARLY ADVERSITY GETS UNDER THE SKIN") [2024-2025: Music and Health: Putting Knowledge into Practice](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2025-music-and-health-putting-knowledge-practice "MBB Junior Symposium 2025: Music and Health: Putting Knowledge into Practice") [​​​​​​​2023-2024: New Ways to Study the Human Brain](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2024-new-ways-study-human-brain "MBB Junior Symposium 2024: New Ways to Study the Human Brain") [2022-2023: Two Brains, One Organism: Gut and Brain](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2023-two-brains-one-organism-gut-and-brain "MBB Junior Symposium 2023: Two Brains, One Organism: The Gut and the Brain ") [2021-2022: COVID-19 and Mind Brain Behavior](/event/mind-brain-behavior-junior-symposium-2022-covid-19-and-mind-brain-behavior "MBB Junior Symposium 2022: COVID-19 and Mind Brain Behavior") [2019-2020: How the Brain is Shaped by Experience](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-how-brain-shaped-experience "MBB Junior Symposium: How the Brain is Shaped by Experience ") [2018-2019: Hatred and Aggression: An MBB Perspective](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-hatred-and-aggression-mbb-perspective "MBB Junior Symposium: Hatred And Aggression: An MBB Perspective") [2017-2018: Sex, Mind, and Brain](/event/mind-brain-behavior-junior-symposium-2017-2018-sex-mind-and-brain "Mind Brain Behavior Junior Symposium 2017-2018: Sex, Mind, and Brain") [2016-2017: Measuring, Explaining, and Creating Cognition](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2016-2017 "MBB Junior Symposium 2016-2017") [2015-2016: What Makes Human Cognition Powerful?](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2016 "MBB Junior Symposium 2016") [2014-2015: Mind, Brain, and the Wonderful World of Animal Behavior](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2014-mind-brain-and-wonderful-world-animal-behavior "MBB Junior Symposium 2014: Mind, Brain, and the Wonderful World of Animal Behavior") [2013-2014: New Methods in Brain Science: Optogenetics, the Connectome, and Functional Imaging 2.0](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2013-new-methods-brain-science-optogenetics-connectome-and-functional "MBB Junior Symposium 2013: New Methods in Brain Science: Optogenetics, the Connectome, and Functional Imaging 2.0") [2012-2013: What is Reality? Perception in Wake, Sleep, and Psychosis](/event/mindbrainbehavior-2012-junior-symposium-what-reality-perception-wake-sleep-and-psychosis "MBB Junior Symposium 2012: What is Reality? Perception in Wake, Sleep, and Psychosis") [2011-2012: Social Vision](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2011-social-vision "MBB Junior Symposium 2011: Social Vision ") [2010-2011: Concepts and Conceptualization](https://mbb.harvard.edu/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2010-concepts-and-conceptualization) [2009-2010: Aggression](/event/mbb-junior-symposium-2009-aggression "MBB Junior Symposium 2009: Aggression") ### Research Showcase (Poster Session) expand\_more Each spring as classes come to an end, MBB presents a poster session highlighting the thesis research of graduating seniors as well as graduate student and postdoctoral fellow research it has funded. This is a great opportunity to see the wide range of research possibilities in MBB, particularly what you can accomplish in a lab or other research project as an undergraduate. ### Senior Recognition Ceremony expand\_more Each year, MBB hosts a graduation event during Commencement Week to celebrate the accomplishments of its senior class of track and secondary field students. Students and their families gather at the Faculty Club to enjoy a buffet breakfast and hear remarks from MBB faculty leaders and from student prize winners and graduating class representatives. The 2027 Senior Recognition Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 26th from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Invitations to seniors and their families will be sent in late April.