Three Penn students founded Nexus, a club that encourages Black academics to explore the interdisciplinary studies of the mind and artificial intelligence.
Through the creation of Nexus, College seniors Michael Konu and Razan Osman, and College sophomore Nwai Alfa — all cognitive science majors — said they hope to provide fellow cognitive science majors and those with interests in cognition with a new space for building community.
Nexus’ inspiration stems in part from the small number of cognitive science-specific classes which inhibits the creation of a strong cognitive science community. Currently, cognitive science majors take courses across six disciplines: neuroscience, philosophy, language, psychology, computation, and math.
While the interdisciplinary nature of the major is integral to its practice, Nexus’ founders found a lack of space for discussion with other cognitive science majors.
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