Peter Morgane donates permanent art exhibit to UNE on large brain anatomy
Peter Morgane of Kennebunkport and Professor at the University of New England, has donated to the University of New England 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 UNE‚Äôs Pickus Center for Biomedical Research, which includes the Cécile Morgane Research Laboratories named in honor of Dr. Morgane‚Äôs 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 UNE.
Dr. Morgane has been a faculty member and researcher in UNE’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.