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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

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YSP-REACH introduces neuroscience and neural engineering to high school students

Monday, July 17, 2023
By Eric H. Chudler

For five days in mid-July 2023, high school students from around the world participated in the Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) Young Scholars Program-REACH (YSP-REACH). YSP-REACH was created to promote interest and increase knowledge about neuroscience and neural engineering in high school students.

This year 19 students attended the program in-person at the CNT on the University of Washington Seattle campus and 90 students attended morning sessions of the program online via Zoom. Although most students in YSP-REACH were from schools in the Puget Sound area, some students traveled to the UW campus from Canada, Oregon, Florida and North Carolina and others connected to the program online from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Utah, New York, Virginia, California, Idaho, Texas, Turkey, Korea, China, and Brazil.

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YSP-REACH students in front of Suzzallo Library

Students Compete in NeuroTEC/Synaptech Hackathon

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
By Eric H. Chudler

NeuroTEC UW and Synaptech UW teamed up to host the second NeuroTEC x Synaptech Hackathon at the Center for Neurotechnology. Five teams of undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of majors competed from February 10-12, 2023, to complete projects incorporating neurotechnology.

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CNT member Azadeh Yazdan co-leads research team developing AI-guided brain stimulation methods aimed at treating mental health disorders

Thursday, January 19, 2023
By Wayne Gillam

Mental health could be considered a new frontier, one where the undiscovered landscape exists mostly in the brain. In this space, there are vast numbers of people impacted by mental illness, and there is a profound opportunity for science and technology to play an important role in bettering the human condition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mental health disorders are among the most common health conditions in the United States. And more than half of us will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in our lives. Although great strides have been made in recent years in the development of potent drugs that treat symptoms of many types of mental illnesses, the underlying mechanisms of most of these diseases are still not well understood.

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Azadeh Yazdan

CNT Students Present Their Research in Prague, Czech Republic

Monday, October 24, 2022
By Eric Chudler

Last month, Samantha Sun and Courtnie Paschall, both CNT and UW Department of Bioengineering graduate students, traveled 5,210 miles from Seattle, USA to Prague, Czech Republic to present their work at the annual IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

Samantha Sun presented her work titled "Human Intracortical Responses to Varying Electrical Stimulation Conditions Are Separable in Low-Dimensional Subspaces," for which she was awarded the IEEE Brain Best Student Paper and was one of only four finalists for the overall IEEE SMC Best Paper.

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Samantha Sun receives award

UW ECE labs host undergraduate students studying neurotechnology

Monday, August 15, 2022
By Wayne Gillam

This summer, UW ECE labs are hosting five outstanding undergraduate students from across the country who are learning about neurotechnology through immersive research experiences, interactive courses and workshops. The students are part of a larger cohort placed at labs across the UW campus to take part in the Research Experience for Undergraduates through the Center for Neurotechnology. This 10-week summer program is funded by the National Science Foundation and facilitated by the Center, which is co-directed by UW ECE faculty members Rajesh Rao and Chet Moritz.

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Annika Pfister working at a computer

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