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The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) announced today that it has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Emery Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, co-director of HST and associate director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

Ten years after the Hammond report recommended ways to increase faculty diversity at MIT, little has changed. This article about the history of diversity efforts at MIT first appeared in MIT Technology Review magazine.

The 20 McGovern “rising stars," each from one of 20 labs — include two HST students — who are deemed to represent the future of neuroscience.

By accounting for sweat physiology, research by an HST faculty director and a MEMP PhD student show a method that can make better use of electrodermal activity (EDA) for tracking subconscious changes in physical or emotional state.

Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells. MIT researchers, including an HST faculty member and an HST student, have now greatly boosted the amount of information gleaned from each of those cells, by modifying the commonly used Seq-Well technique.