Welcoming Assistant Professor Meghan Meyer to PBS

Assistant Professor Meghan Meyer joined the PBS Faculty in July, 2017.  Her research focuses on integrating social and cognitive neuroscience to understand what drives our ability and need to think about the social world around us. Read more about Welcoming Assistant Professor Meghan Meyer to PBS

Assistant Professor Kyle Smith is a "Scientist to Watch"

The Scientist magazine featured PBS Assistant Professor Kyle Smith as a Scientist to Watch in their November 2017 edition.  Professor Smith joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2013, and research in his lab focuses on reward response and habit formation. Read more about Assistant Professor Kyle Smith is a "Scientist to Watch"

Assistant Professor Kyle Smith

Learning adjusts to the environment but sub-optimally

A Dartmouth-led study published in Neuron reveals that there's not a single rate of learning for everything we do, as the brain can self-adjust its learning rates using a synaptic mechanism called metaplasticity. Read more about Learning adjusts to the environment but sub-optimally

PBS Student Wins Award at Graduate Poster Session

Congratulations to Jin Hyung Cheong from the Chang Lab in PBS, one of five students to receive an award for his poster at the annual Dartmouth Graduate Poster Session. Read more about PBS Student Wins Award at Graduate Poster Session

PBS Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Congratulations to PBS graduate students Sarah Herald and Nicole DeAngeli who both received 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards.  Sarah and Nicole are two of the three Dartmouth recipients. Read more about PBS Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

NSF GRFP Recipients Sarah Herald and Nicole DeAngeli

Do we have free will?

Professor Thalia Wheatley and Professor Peter Tse tackle this question in an episode of Closer to Truth, a program that airs on many PBS stations.  The episode is one in a series entitled Big Questions in Free Will. Read more about Do we have free will?

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