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  • Seeking the cellular mechanisms of disease, with help from machine learning

    Seeking the cellular mechanisms of disease, with help from machine learning

    MIT News
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    April 6, 2021

    Caroline Uhler blends machine learning, statistics, and biology to understand how our bodies respond to illness.


  • Tamara Broderick awarded ONR Early Career Grant

    Tamara Broderick awarded ONR Early Career Grant

    LIDS News
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    March 17, 2021

    Tamara Broderick, an IDSS Affiliate Faculty and Core Faculty member of SDSC, has been awarded an Early Career Grant (ECG) by the Office of Naval Research.


  • 3 Questions: Vaccines and the power of positive reinforcement

    3 Questions: Vaccines and the power of positive reinforcement

    MIT News
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    March 10, 2021

    Sinan Aral and Dean Eckles are two of the co-authors of a new MIT-based study showing that focusing on people reluctant to get vaccines can be counterproductive.


  • 3 Questions: Devavrat Shah on curbing online misinformation

    3 Questions: Devavrat Shah on curbing online misinformation

    MIT News
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    February 26, 2021

    SDSC founding faculty Devavrat Shah shares how social media algorithms could be tweaked to curb the spread of misinformation and promote a diversity of viewpoints.


  • Study: Covid-19 communications featuring racially diverse physicians can improve health outcomes for communities of color

    Study: Covid-19 communications featuring racially diverse physicians can improve health outcomes for communities of color

    MIT News
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    February 22, 2021

    Public health video messages featuring a racially diverse set of physicians were found to decrease knowledge gaps


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