Charting a new course
Former naval petty officer Manuel Morales now develops imaging applications to detect cardiac dysfunction in young patients. When it comes to journeys to MIT, Manuel Morales, a doctoral candidate in the Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) program at HST, has taken a different tack. As a high school student…
Read MoreForty-seven students graduate in the HST Class of 2021
On Wednesday, May 26, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) held its second online graduation ceremony and celebration. Accustomed by now to doing everything—from learning to celebrating—online, the stellar class of 2021 graduates of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) participated in the program’s…
Read MoreHST MEMP PhD graduate Avilash Cramer will focus on making technology accessible to all
Cramer, focused on the inequities in healthcare and other technologies, has worked on everything from portable radiography tools to seismology research. The past school year, with its primarily online learning format and pandemic-fueled lack of in-person experiences, has been a challenge for students everywhere, including those graduating from the Harvard-MIT…
Read MoreHow two 2021 HST MD grads combined art and friendship
Katherine Redfield Chan and Constance Wu shared artistic pursuits, including writing and illustrating a children’s book about Covid, on the way to earning their HST MD degrees. When the world, including all academic activities, moved primarily online at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many graduate students worried about keeping…
Read MoreThis is your brain under anesthesia
For the first time, researchers, including the associate director of IMES, were able to observe, in extra-fine detail, how neurons behave as consciousness shuts down. When you are awake, your neurons talk to each other by tuning into the same electrical impulse frequencies. One set might be operating in unison…
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