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(10/11/16 4:01am)
University researchers examined how people judge competence and morality based on observed levels of self-enhancement in a study published Oct. 4. In online surveys, participants assessed male characters ...
(10/05/16 4:04am)
J. Michael Kosterlitz, professor of physics, was named a winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday morning. Kosterlitz shares his half of the prize with Frederick Haldane, professor of physics ...
(10/04/16 4:00am)
A paper published this summer by University researchers concluded that, in Mali, price is a more significant barrier to healthcare than a lack of information. Researchers offered both subsidies and informational ...
(09/29/16 4:02am)
Lauren Redniss ’96 was sitting in her parents’ kitchen with her son when she received a call from an unknown number. Assuming it was an election survey, she picked up. “That’s not what it was,” ...
(09/26/16 4:00am)
Simone Giertz, affectionately titled “Queen of shitty robots” by fans of her YouTube videos, gave a GIF-laden presentation on her playful engineering work Friday afternoon in the Granoff Center for ...
(09/20/16 4:00am)
Katherine Freese, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, described the state of research on dark matter in her lecture “The Dark Side of the Universe” Friday evening. She outlined the ...
(09/13/16 4:00am)
The National Science Foundation awarded a four-year grant of $6 million to 14 researchers Aug. 22 for research into the neuroscience of attention.
The scientists include three professors from the University: ...
(09/09/16 4:01am)
A University study published online Aug. 30 revealed a surprising discovery: a new binding formation used uniquely by two proteins during the final stages of cell division. The discovery could have implications ...
(04/26/16 4:02am)
With Rhode Islanders heading to the polls today, the unsettled races in both parties place more importance on voters in the Ocean State than in past years.
A poll conducted by the Taubman Center for American ...
(04/25/16 4:04am)
President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards ’80 spoke on campus Friday to advocate for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign, highlighting Clinton’s support for ...
(04/22/16 4:03am)
Updated April 24, 2016 at 8:25 p.m.
Joe Lonsdale, founder of Palantir Technologies, Addepar and 8VC, spoke about his business experience and professional philosophy in a talk hosted by the Brown University ...
(04/19/16 4:00am)
Jennifer Klein ’87, senior advisor to Hillary Clinton and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, spoke at the School of Public Health Thursday, delivering a lecture titled “Women’s Health ...
(04/07/16 4:01am)
In contrast to previous trends, the 2016 election cycle has seen online polling used more often than traditional telephone polls. But while online polling is cheaper than telephone polling and has produced ...
(04/04/16 4:04am)
An anti-Semitic flyer was discovered on an office printer in Barus and Holley Thursday afternoon. The University employee who found the flyer contacted the Department of Public Safety, which responded ...
(03/22/16 4:01am)
UpFest, a new festival hosted by the Production Workshop, provides student groups and individuals a platform to showcase their work. The two-week festival was conceived in response to feedback from the ...
(03/16/16 4:15am)
Within certain University biology departments, women make up nearly half of the faculty, and within the department of behavioral and social sciences, 70 percent of faculty members are women.
But disparities ...
(03/11/16 5:05am)
Written by Melanie Marnich and directed by Emily Garrison ’16.5, Production Workshop’s “Tallgrass Gothic” stuns with secrets, scandal and regimented religion. Running this weekend, the show incorporates ...
(02/26/16 5:15am)
Kenneth Miller '70 P'02, professor of biology, spoke at the Feb. 13 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., where he reviewed the 2005 Kitzmiller ...
(02/17/16 5:15am)
In the last decade, many medical schools have removed the requirement for a second semester of organic chemistry and added a semester of biochemistry, said Joanne McEvoy, director of admission at the ...
(02/09/16 5:25am)
Pre-medical students wrote a petition last week calling for the University to expand the offerings of certain chemistry courses in order to allow students who take CHEM 0100: “Introductory Chemistry” ...