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MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences celebrated faculty, staff, teaching, mentorship, and academic excellence in ceremonies recently. The Building 46 Awards Ceremony was held in Singleton Auditorium April 11, and a dinner to recognize undergraduate academic award winners was held April 16.
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Mark Harnett, an associate professor at MIT, still remembers the first time he saw electrical activity spiking from a living neuron. He was a senior at Reed College and had spent weeks building a patch clamp rig — an experimental setup with an electrode that can be used to gently probe a neuron and measure its electrical activity. “The first time I stuck one of these electrodes onto one of these cells and could see the electrical activity happening in real time on the oscilloscope, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life. This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,’” Harnett says.
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In celebration of Women's History Month, MindHandHeart invited several professors, including Institute Professor and BCS faculty member Ann Graybiel, to share their career journeys, from the progress they have witnessed to the challenges they have faced as women in STEM. Their conversation was moderated by Mary Fuller, chair of the faculty and professor of literature.