News from 2019

SEVEN MCB POSTDOCS RECEIVE FELLOWSHIPS

Ryunosuke Amo  Naoshige Uchida lab Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Project title: Elucidating the neural circuit mechanism underlying prediction error computation in dopamine neurons…

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HARVARD STUDENTS PROMOTE LATINX OUTREACH

With support from two leading Latinx* organizations, MCO students Gonzalo Gonzalez-Del Pino, Linda Honaker, and Alexandra Mattei participated in Step into Stem (SiS): Exposing Girls to STEM Careers…

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INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS WITH SELFIES

Matt Smith, a second-year graduate student in Ben de Bivort’s lab and member of the MCO graduate program, pulls a large manila envelope out of his backpack. He…

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UNDERGRADUATE INITIATIVES: I: EAU

To a class of teenagers in Maine, where fresh-water springs, lakes, and brooks abound, the international water crisis seemed unfathomable. A presentation from the BARKA foundation at his…

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GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVES: SCIENCE CLUB LATIN AMERICA

  Despite the worldwide proliferation of STEM careers, Latin Americans remain underrepresented in the global scientific community. “I think the common denominator for each of us,” suggests Mohammed…

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ANNUAL BOSTON BACTERIAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT MIT JUNE 14-15

Registration is open for the 2016 Boston Bacterial Meeting! For over 20 years, the annual Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) has brought together microbiologists from both academic and industrial…

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MCB STUDENT TO GIVE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

Jiang He, a graduate student from the Zhuang Research Lab, has been chosen as the graduate student winner of Harvard’s 2016 Commencement Student Orations Competition. Jiang’s speech will…

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UNDERGRADUATE INITIATIVES: HEALTHPALS

Jack Huang At freshman orientation in 2012, MCB concentrator Jack Huang ’16 was understandably overwhelmed. After a flurry of five-minute presentations from seemingly every agency and acronym on…

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