EAST LANSING – The way David Zoltowski explains it, the brain is a series of connections that, when altered slightly, can change dramatically the way it processes information.

The brain is Zoltowski’s passion, his life puzzle. So the Michigan State senior swim team captain, Rhodes scholarship finalist and Churchill scholarship hopeful spends much of his free time in a lab, poring over data with MSU engineering professor Selin Aviyente. A National Science Foundation grant funds their search for algorithms to better analyze our least-understood organ. - Read more at Freep.com