MIT World Speakers

Stephan Chorover

Stephan Chorover has served in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences since 1961. He received his S.B. in biology from City College in New York and his Ph.D. in neuropsychology from New York University. Chorover has held visiting appointments at the Comite National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University’s Psychology Department and Graduate School of Education. Over the course of his career at MIT his research has focused upon problems of learning, memory, and "action research," and he has become interested in forms of pedagogy that both promote learning and stimulate retention of information. In addition he has developed a particular interest in promoting "environmental literacy" on the part of students, and he has devised new and innovative teaching techniques to develop this environmental awareness in his students.