Stylebook snapshot: 'Brain dress' by Carnegie Mellon University professor weaves together science, fashion

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A special occasion calls for a special dress. When Carnegie Mellon University’s Marlene Behrmann, the Cowan professor of cognitive neuroscience, learned she was to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences — and the first female scientist from the university to earn the honor — she came up with a unique concept for an outfit to wear to the ceremony in Washington, D.C., that combined her longtime interest in fashion and her background in brain imaging.