2020-2021 MBB Faculty Research Award Recipients

Mahzarin Banaji (Psychology, FAS) and Krzysztof Gajos (Computer Science, SEAS)

Mapping Social Attitudes and Beliefs: Computationally Intensive Methods Applied to Large Corpora of Computer Resident Language

Video Presentation

 

Sharon Dekel (Psychiatry, MGH), Anjali Kaimal (Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, MGH), and Lisa Shin (Psychiatry, MGH)

A Neurobehavioral Approach to Assess Maternal Bonding Impairment in the Early Postpartum Period

Video Presentation

 

Max Krasnow (Psychology, FAS), Joe Henrich (Human Evolutionary Biology, FAS), and Miriam Lindner (Psychology, FAS)

Alone Together and Angry: Misogynistic Terrorism as Intergroup Bargaining for Sexual Access

Video Presentation
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Venkatesh Murthy (Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS), and Cengiz Pehlevan (Applied Mathematics, SEAS), and Paul Masset (Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS)

Computational Architectures for Olfaction

Video Presentation

 

Sarah Richardson (History of Science/Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, FAS)

Seed Funding for the Harvard GenderSci Lab

Video Presentation

 

Stelios Smirnakis (Neurology, BWH) and Jeffrey Moffitt (Microbiology, HMS)

Cell-Specific In-Situ Transcriptomic and Functional Dissection of Molecular Pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease

Video Presentation

 

Leah Somerville (Psychology, FAS), Judith Edersheim (Psychiatry, MGH), Nancy Gertner (HLS), and Francis Shen (HLS)

Neuroscience and Juvenile Justice: Critical Updates

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