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Professor Michael Cohen’s Changing Room Illusion Voted One of the Best Illusions of 2021

In an annual contest held by the Neural Correlate Society, fans voted the Changing Room Illusion one of the top three most impressive optical illusions of the year. Cohen, an assistant professor of psychology, created the deceptive video as a demonstration of “gradual change blindness.”

Ophthalmologist James Tsai ’85 Leads Field in Research, Instruction

Pennsylvania’s Altoona Mirror profiles Dr. Tsai, a fourth-generation physician (and Amherst trustee emeritus) who is president of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and system chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Professor Dwight Carey Wins SAH IDEAS Research Fellowship

Carey, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and the History of Art, is one of five architectural scholars to receive the 2022 research fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians. These fellowships “aim to support research that challenges existing paradigms” and “are intended to create mentored cohorts to support the work of emerging scholars” from marginalized groups.

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Feb 4

Virtual Lunch & Learn with Dr. Scott L. Rauch '82, President & Psychiatrist in Chief of McLean Hospital

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Feb 10

Anatomy of a Deal: Aeris Partners Case Study Review (Virtual)

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Feb 11

"Phosphoinositide Feedback Loops and the Molecular Choreography of Directed Cellular Migration,” Presented by Marc Edwards

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Feb 14

Designing Your Internship Experience — Hosted by the Loeb Center's Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Mar 24

2021-2022 Hugh Hawkins Lecture: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, "Hunger Narratives: Science and the Failed Attempt to End World Hunger"

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Apr 1

"Literary Atmospherics and the Modernist Novel,” Presented by Anna Abramson

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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