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- 11.701 Introduction to International Development Planning
- 12.158 Molecular Biogeochemistry
- 12.811 Tropical Meteorology
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Highlights for High School
Thought, learning, perception, reasoning, and language are all cognitive abilities powered by the soft squishy gray stuff inside our skulls.
In the Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience course, you'll examine several aspects of human cognition and look at the neurophysiology that underlies them, after a quick-and-dirty introduction to neurons and the brain.
You'll also discuss methods used to study these areas, read some current research, and navigate the wilds of the science library.
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The MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology has created innovative and intuitive teaching tools for classroom use through the STAR: Software Tools for Academics and Researchers program.
Some of the tools include a molecular 3-D viewer, a genetic cross simulator, and a set of visual and analytic software tools for the analysis of genomic gene expression data generated through microarray analysis.
All of the STAR educational tools are freely available. Students, teachers, and professors should feel welcome to download software and curriculum modules for their own use.
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