To JEE

Had a blast with Robert last week, and Spring Quarter star=ing now - have to tell you that -150 UCLA undergrads signed up for my two =usic Mind & Brain seminars this year (having to turn some away), and n=w the NSci & Music programs have asked me to propose a General Electiv= course that enrolls hundreds of majors/minors from all depts one term per=yr. All this 30+ years after my 1980s Neurology professors and colleagues =old me I was nuts to suggest a research program on the cognitive neuroscie=ce of music when none existed. It took you and some NSci hall-of-fame beli=vers - Hubei, the Gaz,Kiang - and a Harvard Provost's Award for Educat=onal Innovation from Harvey Fineberg to nurture the maverick, feed the bea=t, and make it happen. Heartfelt thanks, as always, for supporting The Ins=itute and me all these yearsxxx

Mar= Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Integrative Biology &= Physiology, UCLA College of Letters & Science

Dept of Neurolo=y, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dept of Musicology, U=LA Herb Alpert School of Music

Director, The Inst=tute for Music & Brain Science Co-Director, University of Ca=ifornia Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI) <= href="http://www.brainmusic.org/" target="_blank">http://www.BrainMus=c.org h=tp://merci.ucsd.edu http://merci.ucsd.edu/