On April 11, The Simons Center for the Social Brain welcomed Jim and Marilyn Simons for an afternoon of investigator talks and hands-on laboratory meetings with Postdoctoral Fellows and graduate students. MIT President Susan Hockfield, Dean of Science Marc Kastner, Dean of Engineering Ian Waitz, and Simons Center for the Social Brain Director Mriganka Sur introduced the new Center to assembled members of the MIT community, and Simons Center Investigators Alan Jasanoff and Feng Zhang spoke of their ongoing Simons-sponsored research.
 
     
  Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 
      
  Feng Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 
      
  Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., President of MIT 
      
  Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., President of MIT 
      
  Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., President of MIT 
      
  Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Engineering 
      
  Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Engineering 
      
  Alan Jasanoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Engineering 
      
  Marc A. Kastner, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Science and Donner Professor of Physics 
      
  Marc A. Kastner, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Science and Donner Professor of Physics 
      
  Ian A. Waitz, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Engineering, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and MacVicar Fellow