BioMatrix Launch
Professor Martha Gray , Dr Richard Mitchell, Dr David Roth
Thu Jan 18, 12-02:00pm, E25-117
Join us for the launch of BioMatrix, an advising and mentoring program for undergraduates interested in biomedical engineering and the biomedical sciences. BioMartix links undergraduates with faculty, clinician, researcher, and industry mentors through a series of monthly meetings and social events and through an on-line community. Co-Directors Professor Martha Gray and Dr. Richard Mitchell and Faculty Director Dr. David Roth will introduce this exciting new program, funded by the Alex and Brit d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in MIT Education, which is intended to help students explore and make career decisions about the biomedical field. At this introductory session, there will be a demonstration of the BioMatrix website, which includes a searchable database with profiles of participants, enabling faculty and students with common interests to connect with each other. (The program will be ongoing during the spring term for a limited number of participants.) The session will conclude with a reception.
Contact: Catherine Modica, E25-518, x3-2307, cmodica@mit.edu
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Bioengineering K-12 Outreach Workshop!
Mark D'Avila , Erika Brown
Wed Jan 24, 11am-01:00pm, E25-119
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
WHO? - You and anyone else interested in bio- or biomedical engineering, educational outreach, kids, or education.
WHAT? - This is an excellent opportunity to shape the future of K-12 education. Develop hands-on laboratories to convey cool concepts for K-12 students.
WHY? - Because kids are cool! Because bioengineering is cool! Because you want to get involved and meet neat people and eat our food!
The goal of this workshop is to develop a three-hour design activity for MIT's Edgerton Center. Workshop participants will use bioengineering technologies to actively engage 8th grade Cambridge school students in learning principles of physical science and medicine.
The workshop's content will involve the use of biomechanics to convey Newton's law and the law of energy conservation. What might the activity look like?
- Air Jordan-is it the shoes? You might develop a device or protocol to measure the energy expended when jumping. In this example, the impacts of various shoe materials would be explored.
- The Six-Dollar Man. You might be guided in the development of a prosthetic limb. This would include studying the balance of muscular forces and examining the impacts of different materials.
- Spacercise. You might design exercise equipment for the international space station. The equipment would be used to prevent bone loss due to decreased skeletal loading in a microgravity environment.
The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's VaNTH Engineering Research Center
Contact: Mark D'Avila, E25-518, 452.4091, mad@mit.edu
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Biomedical Industrial Internship Program
Drs. James Weaver , H. Frederick Bowman
Thu Jan 25, 02-03:00pm, E25-119
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This paid industrial internship offers an opportunity for students considering biomedical engineering careers to explore the increasing number of industrial avenues available to them as alternatives to the more traditional routes leading to academic or clinical careers.
Drs. Weaver and Bowman will answer your questions about this program and describe opportunities such as networking and scholarships, as well as the academic responsibilities associated with the scholarship. These may include participation in several seminars held periodically at industrial sites and brief presentations and reports by participants at the end of the interniship experience. Please join us to learn more about this exciting new program
Contact: Patricia Glidden, E25-518, 258-7084, pglidden@mit.edu
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HST Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Programs I: MEMP
H. Frederick Bowman
Tue Jan 9, 04-05:00pm, E25-119/121
HST's Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) Program is one of the largest biomedical engineering doctoral programs in the nation. This program is intended to provide sufficient grounding in medicine, science, and engineering to enable students to both formulate and solve problems at the interface of technology, biomedical sciences, and clinical medicine. Several HST faculty members and current MEMP students will present and discuss unique features of the HST PhD program in Biomedical Engineering, and will answer any questions students might have.
Contact: H. Frederick Bowman, E25-518, x3-7426, hfbowman@mit.edu
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HST Cardiovascular Genomics Center at the Boston Heart Foundation
Dr. Robert Lees Professor of HST and President of Boston Heart Foundation
Thu Jan 11, 11am-12:00pm, E25-119
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come and learn what's going on at this newly formed center which combines the clinical strength of the Boston Heart Foundation and its large population of heart disease or at-risk subjects with the multiple strengths of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Our goal is to determine the inherited factors which relate to heart disease risk, to diagnose thier presence early in life, to learn how to prevent heart disease in subjects at risk, and to better treat those who have heart disease.
Dr. Lees will present examples of these inherited conditions, how to diagnose and how to prevent coronary disease.
Contact: Dr. Robert Lees, E25-119, 253-3012, rsl@mit.edu
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HST Doctoral Programs: Speech and Hearing Sciences (SHS)
Louis D. Braida , M Christian Brown, Joseph Perkell, Students
Tue Jan 16, 03:30-05:00pm, E25-101
The objective of this multidisciplinary educational program is to develop research scientists, rather than clinical practitioners, by introducing the physical and biological bases of speech and hearing mechanisms through quantitative analyses of the underlying mechanisms involved in communication processes. Students in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Program have the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of research topics in laboratories at MIT, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School and its other affiliated hospitals. Several SHS faculty members and current students will demonstrate unique features of the HST Speech and Hearing Sciences Doctoral Program, and will answer any questions students might have.
Contact: Ron Smith, E25-518, x3-7470, ronsmith@mit.edu
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Medical School at MIT? (RESCHEDULED)
Daniel C. Shannon
Thu Jan 25, 12-02:00pm, E25-101, RESCHEDULED FROM 1/11
YES... MIT joined with Harvard University and Harvard Medical School in 1970 to form the "Health Sciences and Technology" (HST) Program. HST's Medical Sciences curriculum leads to an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. Students in this program are registered as graduate students at MIT as well as at Harvard Medical School. Classes are given both at MIT and at Harvard. This program is oriented toward students with strong interests in a career in biomedical research. Typically half of those student who matriculate majored in biological sciences and half in physical sciences. Several HST faculty members and current MDs, as well as MD-PhD, students will present and discuss all aspects of the MD program.
Contact: H. Frederick Bowman, E25-518, x3-7426, hfbowman@mit.edu
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Research Opportunities at Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine
John A.Parrish,M.D.
Thu Jan 18, 01-03:00pm, E25-101
Prereq: none
Find out about research opportunities at the Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, a multidiscipline laboratory devoted to both basic and applied research in diagnostic and therapeutic uses of light. Located at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Wellman Lab is the largest facility devoted to laser medical research in the U.S. Opportunities exist for students to conduct research at various levels (undergraduate, masters, PhD thesis) while enrolled at HST or other departments at MIT and Harvard. Several faculty members and graduate students will be present to discuss their research and to answer any questions students may have.
Contact: Charles Lin, 724-3957, lin@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
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