Welcome to SHBTThe strange but familiar fact that an idea, an emotion, a warning, a song, can travel from one person’s brain to another depends on the dauntingly complex, deeply fascinating chain reaction known as human communication. At the Harvard-MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT), we study every link in that chain, at every level of understanding, from biochemistry to cognition. Our faculty includes physicists, biologists, psychologists, linguists, clinicians, neurophysiologists, and at least five kinds of engineers. Our doctoral students cover the same dynamic range. Together, we take a strikingly cross-disciplinary approach, pursuing innovative answers to some very big questions: How do speech and hearing work? How do the mechanisms go wrong? And what can we do to restore them? |
SHBT News and EventsSHBT Faculty featured in HST Connector Jennifer Melcher featured in the Spring 2009 HST Connector [pdf]. SHBT Thesis Defense Who: Bradley N. Buran SHBT Thesis Defense Who: S.R. Prakash Song: Neuro Mnemonic
By: Gus Halwani Roozbeh Ghaffari (SHBT '08) and team win MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Recent SHBT graduate Roozbeh Ghaffari and his teammates were awarded the grand prize in MIT's 100K Entrepreneurship Competition for a business plan for Diagnostics for All, a nonprofit company that has developed a unique process for making simple medical test kits out of paper. The company's inexpensive tests require only a single drop of blood to provide a color-coded response indicating the presence of any of several different diseases. Read the entire MIT press release here. The Diagnostics for All team also won the HBS Business Plan Contest. Read more. SHBT Faculty Quoted in NYT SHBT faculty Dr. Steven Rauch is quoted in an article in the New York Times about keeping your ears healthy, one piece of a series on "A guided tour of your body" in the Health section. Recent EventsSHBT Thesis Defense Who: Sasha Devore |
