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Rather than being forced to hunt through the course catalog to find courses relevant to neuroscience, students in the MBB program now have such courses at their fingertips. In reference to the computational neuroscience track, Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Stuart M. Shieber says, "People with MBB interest would have been able to major in computer science anyway, but the track puts in one place courses that are pertinent...
...Future of MBB...
...Will MBB evolve into its own concentration? Committee members are paying close attention to the new tracks, which they consider to be somewhat of an experiment. "Whether there is a concentration depends on sustained student interest in the tracks and the perception of the faculty and student alike that we are adding value," Hyman writes in an e-mail message...
Although the MBB program is still in its formative stages, the faculty seem confident that this experiment will succeed...
...hopeful that MBB will generate novel and important research at the intersections of different disciplines, as well as help to train a new generation of scholars with both discipline-specific expertise and cross-disciplinary breadth," says Schacter. "This new generation of scholars will help to create the synergies that will shape 21st-century science."CrimsonRebecca L. Bennett...