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Pokémon on the brain
Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series.
Research and learning are the foundations of discovery.
The School of Humanities and Sciences is the center of a world-class liberal arts education.
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Deans Debra Satz and Jennifer Widom offer words of wisdom to undergraduates.
In humanities classes you learn that people come at the world differently—and the key to a reasonable, productive disagreement is hearing somebody out and inhabiting their perspective.
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Investigating Public Policy and Sexual Freedoms
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October 22, 2019
Walter Vincenti, interdisciplinary engineer, dead at 102
October 17, 2019
Bridging political divides
October 16, 2019
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All of our professors and students have different backgrounds, perspectives, and dreams. But it’s the ways they work together and the qualities they share that make H&S special.
