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December 9, 2016

Richard Held, professor emeritus of brain and cognitive sciences, dies at 94

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December 7, 2016

Feng Zhang named a runner-up for TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year

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Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the W. M.

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December 7, 2016

Unique visual stimulation may be new treatment for Alzheimer’s

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Noninvasive technique reduces beta amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.

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December 2, 2016

Four MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars

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Kimberly Benard | Office of Distinguished Fellowships

Three undergraduate and one graduate student from MIT have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars.

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December 2, 2016

Li-Huei Tsai receives Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award

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Joshua Sariñana | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Li-Huei Tsai, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and

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December 2, 2016

A radiation-free approach to imaging molecules in the brain

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Scientists hoping to get a glimpse of molecules that control brain activity have devised a new probe that allows them to image these molecules without using any chemical or radioactive labels.

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December 1, 2016

How the brain recognizes faces

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Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office

Machine-learning system spontaneously reproduces aspects of human neurology.

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November 23, 2016

Enhancing education from pre-K to MIT and beyond

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Office of Digital Learning

To improve education — whether pK-12, college, professional training, or online courses — one must first gain an understanding of how people learn.

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November 21, 2016

Creating new treatments for amblyopia

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Helen Knight | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Study finds decreasing activity in the eye can help overcome visual impairment.

The visual system can be “rebooted,” offering hope for restoring sight to the visually impaired, according to research at MIT.

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November 21, 2016

Four MIT faculty elected 2016 AAAS Fellows

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Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL

Green, Ketterle, Nedivi, and Shrobe are among those recognized for their efforts toward advancing science.

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