Neuroscience is a cross-disciplinary major centred on studying the brain and the nervous system. It combines many traditional fields of study, including biology, psychology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. The brain is perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon in the biological universe, controlling who we are and all that we do-from the regulation of our every function to the execution of complex thoughts and emotions. Because understanding the brain impacts every aspect of our lives, neurobiologists contribute to a wide variety of career fields. <br><br>Computational neuroscience links the information processing features of the brain and nervous system with the information processing systems of computer hardware and software. WSU's computational neuroscience program is an interdisciplinary offering that allows students to study both neurobiology and computer science. The program emphasizes the organism and the machine as information processing entities. The program is designed to allow students to acquire a breadth of knowledge in computational subjects (math, bioengineering, computer science, and electrical engineering), or to focus on either software design (computer science) or hardware aspects of computation (computer engineering).