Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Bacclureate, Masters, and Doctoral

Levels, is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

With a four-year quadrupling

of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs, and eight new National Centers of Excellence,

Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years. To learn more about

Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

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This is a science podcast for March 15th, 2024. I'm Sarah Cresby. We have two neuroscience stories this week.

First up, freelancer Sarah Reardon asks, why do infants memories fade? We discuss ongoing experiments

that are looking to pin down the hows and whys of infantile amnesia. Next on the show,

more brain stuff. Researcher Hway Kwan Lee is here to talk about

how the brain encodes generalized fear. This is a symptom of some anxiety disorders like

social anxiety and PTSD. I think my earliest memory is from when I was just about two, two years old. I'm sitting or maybe

walking on this like mustery brown carpet. Turns out though that this is probably not a real memory,

but something that I picked up from photos or descriptions of the place that I was living right when my younger sister was born.

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