Four MIT faculty elected 2016 AAAS Fellows
Green, Ketterle, Nedivi, and Shrobe are among those recognized for their efforts toward advancing science.
Department
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Lauren Uhr: a brain researcher motivated by personal experience
MIT senior studies cognitive science and medicine from the vantage point of a person with dyslexia.
Kay Tye Receives the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
Picower Neuroscientist recognized for her work on emotional circuitry of the brain.
Researchers create synthetic cells to isolate genetic circuits
Encapsulating molecular components in artificial membranes offers more flexibility in designing circuits.
Creating therapies for Alzheimer's disease by targeting neural circuits
Study finds a complex series of molecular, cellular, circuit and network-level changes contribute to the progression of Alzheimer's.
Earl Miller receives Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroscientist recognized for his role in modeling brain circuitry as it gives rise to cognition.
Michale Fee and Elizabeth Nolan win Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education
School of Science faculty members honored for excellence in teaching.
Monumental new sculpture commissioned for MIT's McGovern Institute
"SCIENTIA" is the newest addition to MIT's Public Art Collection.
Study suggests approach to waking patients after surgery
Activating certain brain neurons may spur recovery from general anesthesia.
Working with purpose
Work-study program creates priceless relationships between MIT students and the local community.
A new player in appetite control
Brain cells that provide structural support also influence feeding behavior, study shows.
Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84
Longtime professor and beloved advisor was known for advances in experimental and theoretical studies of vision, perception, and cognition.
A delicate balance between positive and negative emotion
Neuroscientists identify two neuron populations that encode happy or fearful memories.
From MIT to the national stage
MassJAS Symposium at MIT selects talented high school students to showcase their science research at the 2017 AAAS annual meeting.
Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory
Cells in the hippocampus store memories of acquaintances, a new study reports.