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These articles cover many different aspects of the Center for Neurotechnology and its faculty, student and staff members. For more stories, visit the Engage and Enable blog
CNT-funded research in Howard Chizeck’s lab at the University of Washington is aimed at improving quality of life for people with protracted, often lifelong, neurological disorders. Industry partners such as Medtronic contribute to and accelerate this challenging work by providing investigational research devices.
Ben Ferleger is keenly aware of the positive impact neurotechnology can have on quality of life.
CNT member Amy Orsborn recently received two prestigious awards that will support her interdisciplinary research aimed at developing neural devices capable of healing and restoring function in the brain and body.
It’s said that there’s often more than one way to solve a problem, and Amy Orsborn, a Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) member at the University of Washington (UW), likely knows this better than most.
Orsborn’s research focuses on building knowledge needed to engineer devices that can collaborate with dynamic, ever-changing networks in the brain. At the CNT, she investigates how the brain learns to interact with and control a neural interface.
The Center for Neurotechnology is going beyond achieving traditional recruitment goals for underrepresented groups with support from Theater for Change UW and the National Science Foundation. In addition to its other diversity efforts, the center is facilitating a deeper level of equity and inclusion through an interactive theatrical performance developed as a workshop for faculty, students and staff.
How can people address racism, sexism, xenophobia and other forms of oppression if they can’t identify when it happens? These and other forms of discrimination can be nuanced and aren’t always obvious to everyone. Sometimes, instances of oppression commonly experienced by underrepresented students can be unintentionally overlooked; however, the impact can be deep and damaging.
Students who participate in the CNT Hackathon receive a unique opportunity to augment their coursework by working closely with peers to design and develop neurotechnology prototypes aimed at addressing real-world clinical issues.
When Joseph and Anusha Fernando were looking for a meaningful way to honor both of their mothers, who were teachers, they thought of the CNT because of its interdisciplinary educational environment and impact on the future.
