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Health Sciences & Technology

Biomedical Enterprise Program: Master's Degree Information Session
Dr. Frank R. Landsberger, BEP Executive Director, Marsha Warren, BEP Program Manager
Wed Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, E25-119

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up

The Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP) bridges the gap between bench and bedside, providing students with specially-designed integrative courses and training experiences that explore the crucial interface between research, business, and the delivery of health care. Come hear more about this exciting new dual-degree master's program.
Contact: Patricia Glidden, E25-518, (617) 258-7084, pglidden@mit.edu

Biomedical Industrial Internship Program
Drs. James Weaver, H. Frederick Bowman
Wed Jan 29, 02-03:30pm, E25-119

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

This paid industrial internship is an opportunity for students considering biomedical engineering careers to explore the increasing number of industrial avenues available as alternatives to the more traditional routes leading to academic or clinical careers. In this information session, Drs. Weaver and Bowman will answer questions about this program and describe opportunities for networking and scholarships, as well as the scholarship's academic responsibilities. These may include participation in several seminars held periodically at industrial sites and brief presentations and reports by participants at the end of the internship. Join us to learn more about this exciting new program.
Contact: Patricia Glidden, E25-518, 258-7084, pglidden@mit.edu

Biomedical Optics Summer Opportunities
Martha Gray, Thomas Deutsch
Wed Jan 15, 04-06:00pm, E25-117

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Optics is playing an increasingly important role in medicine and biology. This workshop will describe some of the projects at MIT and at the Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine at Mass General Hospital that will be accepting summer students under an NIH-NSF sponsored internship program for Junior, Seniors and 1st & 2nd year graduate students. Projects include diffuse optical tomography, photodynamic therapy, optical coherence tomography, improved microscopy for surgical pathology, in vivo confocal microscopy and multi-photon microscopy, selective laser targeting and more. Project leaders will describe the projects, which are part of a Summer Institute running from 11 June 2003 to 15 August 2003 (see URL below for detailed information and applications). 
Web: http://mit.edu/biooptics
Contact: Mark D'Avila, E25-518, (617) 452-4091, mad@mit.edu

Cardiovascular Genomics at the Boston Heart Foundation/HST
Dr. Robert Lees, Professor of HST and President of Boston Heart Foundation
Thu Jan 16, 11-12:00am, Boston Heart Fndtn

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 15-Jan-2003
Limited to 12 participants.
Single session event

Come learn what's going on at this new program which combines the clinical strength of the Boston Heart Foundation with the strengths of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Our goal is to determine the inherited factors of heart disease risk, diagnose them early, prevent heart disease in subjects at risk, and learn how to better treat heart disease. Dr. Lees will present examples of inherited conditions, how to diagnose and prevent coronary disease.
Contact: Patricia Glidden, E25-518, (617) 258-7084, patglidden@mit.edu

HST Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Programs I: MEMP
H. Frederick Bowman
Wed Jan 15, 02-03:00pm, E25-119

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up

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: Patricia Glidden, E25-518, 253-7084, pglidden@mit.edu

Learning Sciences Applied to Science and Engineering Education
Marth L. Gray, Joseph V. Bonventre, Mark D'Avila, Julie Greenberg
Thu Jan 9, 04-05:30pm, E25-111

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Dr. John Bransford, Centennial Professor of Psychology and Education and Co-Director of the Learning Technology Center at Vanderbilt University, is a scholar in human learning and its implication on instruction. He recently co-edited a report by the National Research Council, called How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School (National Academy Press 1999), which synthesis research and best instructional practice to define the How People Learn (HPL) Framework. This framework represents important principles for designing effective learning environments that promote learning with understanding. Dr. Bransford's presentation will describe how these new insights in learning and instruction have shaped the design of instruction in a range of disciplines including bioengineering. This presentation is a must for anyone interested in human learning and the design of effective instruction that prepares students for future learning.
Web: http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/
Contact: Mark D'Avila, E25-518, (617) 452-4091, mad@mit.edu

Medical School at MIT?
Daniel C. Shannon
Mon Jan 13, 12-01:00pm, E25-119

No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2003

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 students who matriculate majored in biological sciences and half in physical sciences. In this information session, several HST faculty members and current MDs, as well as MD-PhD students will present and discuss all aspects of the MD program. Please email both addresses below to sign up.
Contact: Patricia Glidden, E25-518, 253-7426, pglidden@mit.edu, cc:hst-md-admissions@mit.edu

Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Lecture Series
Speech & Hearing Bioscience and Technology PhD Students
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Have you ever wondered how your ears detect sounds? Or how your brain processes language and other auditory stimuli? This introductory lecture series addresses these and other questions related to the science of human communication. All are welcome. See below for details of individual lectures.
Contact: Laura Redi, (617) 253-5957, redi@mit.edu

Your ears are Beautiful! (The Extraordinary Performance of the Inner Ear)
Tony Miller
Your inner ear has evolved amazing signal processing capabilities. We will talk about how cells in your ear work to detect motions smaller than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
Mon Jan 6, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

The Talking Ear (Otoacoustic Emissions: A Window into the Inner Ear)
Radha Kalluri
This lecture will explore the myriad of information we can learn from the sounds "made" by the ear. The discussion will assume no preliminary knowledge of the ear and its functions.
Wed Jan 8, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

Basic Structure and Functioning of the Auditory System
Leonardo cedolin
This lecture covers the mechanisms by which sounds are converted by the auditory system into neural spike-trains. Topics include the anatomy and mechanics of the peripheral auditory system, the functioning of outer and middle ear, hair cell transduction, and generation of spikes in auditory-nerve fibers.
Fri Jan 10, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

The Mammalian Cochlear Efferent System
Keith Darrow
"Efferent" neurons act as a feedback loop to bring information from the brainstem back into the cochlea. We will discuss anatomical, physiological and functional effects of efferent systems, including signal-to-noise enhancement and protection from high-level traumatic sounds.
Mon Jan 13, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

After the Tone (or, Auditory Strategies for Encoding and Analyzing Pitch)
Nick Malyska
This lecture explores pitch perception in the human auditory system by following sound from its reception in the inner ear to its interpretation in the brain and the 'tools' we use to meet challenges of pitch perception.
Wed Jan 15, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

Deafness: A Thing of the Past? (Physiology & Engineering Merge to End Deafness)
Ray Goldsworthy
Can implants cure deafness by directly stimulating the brain? Without question, yes! We will discuss implant history from early experiments to the most recent surgical advances. The lecturer is an implant user and an electrical engineer developing signal processing strategies to reduce noise.
Fri Jan 17, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

From Coke Bottles to Buzzers: Modeling the Processes of Speech Production
Laura Redi
The acoustics of human speech can be understood in terms of simple systems, such as resonant cavities and periodic sources. This lecture will cover the basic physics of speech with the aid of some bells and whistles.
Wed Jan 22, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

The Sounds We Make
Steven Lulich
Many different processes modify the way we say things, often without our being aware of it! We will explore the fundamentals of phonology and phonetics, and how they interact to give us our spoken language.
Fri Jan 24, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

Vocal Communication in Marine Mammals
Ryuji Suzuki
Many species of whales and dolphins make and hear sounds to communicate or to "see" their world. We will sample behavioral studies of a few species to appreciate diverse roles of "voice" in an aquatic environment.
Mon Jan 27, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

Decoding the Speech Signal
Ariel Salomon
How do humans perceive speech? This question will be addressed by examining the results of classic studies on speech perception up through present-day, unsolved problems in speech research.
Wed Jan 29, 11am-12:00pm, E25-111

Anatomy of Vocal and Hearing Organs of Marine Mammals
Ryuji Suzuki
Marine mammals have developed distinct vocal and auditory systems. Comparative anatomical studies of marine & terrestrial species suggest how they might have solved their unique communication problems.
Fri Jan 31, 11am-12:00pm, E35-111

Teaching and Learning Workshop
Martha L. Gray, John Bransford, Vanderbilt University, Lori Breslow, Julie Greenberg
Thu Jan 9, 09:30am-04:30pm, e-mail mad@mit.edu

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Jan-2003
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

Workshop Objectives
Participants will:
- Have a sense of the dimensions of "How People Learn" and how they might be implemented from an instructional design standpoint through the Star Legacy Cycle;
- Be able to identify what they do well as an instructor, vis-ŕ-vis the dimensions of How People Learn.
By the end of the day:
- Participants should be able to identify what that they could do differently in the classroom based on what they learned;
- Participants should be able to define roles for formative assessment, both to improve instruction (from the standpoint of professional development) and also as a means for identifying where students “get stuck” in their learning process.
Contact: Mark D'Avila, E25-518, (617) 452-4091, mad@mit.edu

The Human Engineered: How BME Can Affect You
Ragu Vijaykumar, Sponsered by VaNTH Undergraduate Association / Biomatrix
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None

The Student Leadership Council of the VaNTH ERC is sponsoring this two part speaker series on trends in biomedical engineering. See below for seminar speakers, topics, times and locations.
Contact: Ragu Vijaykumar, vanth-mit@mit.edu

Tissue Engineering Plenary
Dr. Ioannis Yannas
In this seminar, Ioannis Yannas, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, will discuss his recent research studies in the development of a restorable collagen device to assist in nerve regeneration following injuries to the peripheral nervous system and the investigation of the effect of a collagen-glycosaminoglycan (CG) matrix on the cytokine profile in wounds following full-thickness dermal injuries. See the full description of his research in the HST calendar.
Thu Jan 23, 02:30-04:00pm, 56-180

Leg Laboratory Plenary
Dr. Hugh Herr
In this seminar, Dr Hugh Hurr will discuss his work in the MIT Leg Laboratory, specifically his research into how the mechanics, energetics and control of locomotion are determined by speed, animal size and fundamental forces such as gravity and inertia; the development of an auto-adaptive knee prosthesis for trans-femoral amputees; and the design and construction of actin-myosin machines. See a more detailed description of this research in the HST calendar of events.
Thu Jan 30, 02:30-04:00pm, 56-180


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