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Naegele Speaks on “Promises and Pitfalls on Stem Cell Therapy for Brain Disorders”
Jan Naegele, professor of biology, professor of neuroscience and behavior, made two presentations in 2013. On March 12, she spoke on “Promises and Pitfalls of Stem Cell Therapy for Brain Disorders” at the 17th Annual Meeting for the Israeli Society for Biological Psychiatry in Kibbutz Hagoshrim, Israel. On March 26, she spoke to the Middlesex [...]
Historian Brown to Speak at Medford’s Royall House
Lois Brown, the Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of African American Studies and English, will be the featured speaker at the annual “Giving Voice” program to benefit the Royall House and Slave Quarters from 3 to 5 p.m. June 8 on the museum grounds at 15 George St. in Medford, Mass. The title of Brown’s talk [...]
Braxton Honored with Prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award
Anthony Braxton, the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, has been honored with the 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award, one of the country’s most prestigious awards for individual artists. It comes with a $225,000 honorarium. Braxton is a composer, saxophonist, teacher and philosopher with a career spanning half a century. He is also the founder [...]
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5 Questions With . . . Joe Siry of Art & Art History
Professor Siry teaches classes about modern and American architectural and urban history. His book, Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture, was published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2011.
5 Questions With......Vijay Pinch, on Maritime History
Pinch spent five weeks this summer interacting with maritime scholars and working in the archives and library at Mystic Seaport.
Devoto’s Study Contributes to the Understanding of Birth Defects, Muscular Diseases
By studying a gene in zebrafish, Stephen Devoto and his students have a better understanding of what causes birth defects and diseases affecting human musculature.
5 Questions With . . .Lisa Cohen on Teaching and Writing
Cohen is the author of All We Know: Three Lives, an engrossing biographical triptych about three complicated, glamorous, independent, and influential women of the last century (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in July 2012).
5 Questions With....Laura Stark on Human-Subjects Regulation
Assistant Professor Laura Stark hopes her new book can inform scientists, scholars, students and research participants of new research regulations created by the Office of Human Research Protections.
Juhasz’s Study Ties Word Processing Speed to Sensory Experience
Assistant Professor Barbara Juhasz is interested in understanding how words produce a certain sensory experience when read.
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