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Neuroimaging is also extending into the fields of politics and commerce. Tom Freedman, a former senior adviser to the Clinton Administration, along with his brother Joshua, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA, last year founded FKF Applied Research, a company that uses fMRI to study decision making. In the run...
But the Faculty has not yet reached a consensus. A half-dozen professors continued to air doubts on key elements of EPC’s report yesterday, posing sharp questions about the logistics behind secondary fields and how changes in concentration structure would affect senior theses and advising.
Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Virginie Greene said that secondary fields might lead more students to “crowd” the most popular concentrations and leave any exploration of smaller departments for a minor.
Laibson emphasized that the secondary fields are a “superset” that would include any joint concentrations that interest students, without the restrictions imposed by the joint thesis requirement.