NASA selects student satellite for space launch
By 2017, people will be able to look into space and see a satellite created by Brown students shining as brightly as the North Star. The satellite, or “CubeSat,” is a 10-centimeter-cubed satellite ...
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By 2017, people will be able to look into space and see a satellite created by Brown students shining as brightly as the North Star. The satellite, or “CubeSat,” is a 10-centimeter-cubed satellite ...
Gene prolongs aging in flies Until recently, researchers believed that mutations in the “I’m Not Dead Yet” gene, Indy, occurred only in laboratory fruit flies. But, as explained in a study published ...
Rhode Island doctor Milton Hamolsky dies at 92 Professor Emeritus of Medical Science Milton Hamolsky died Jan. 18 after a lifetime of accomplishment in the medical field. Hamolsky played a role in creating ...
The University advertises conducting research as a “vital part of the undergraduate experience” on its admissions website, but administrators do not know how many students actually conduct research ...
With November marking the 13th year of permanent human residence at the International Space Station, NASA is beginning to look for new opportunities for space exploration. Its new Solar System Exploration ...
“I’m not looking for the prima donnas,” said Lynn Rothschild, an adjunct professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry and astrobiologist/evolutionary biologist at NASA Ames who ...
Underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering and math — known as STEM fields — named lack of preparation, stereotyping and unsupportive learning environments as the three ...
Every October, the world awaits the announcement of the year’s Nobel Prize winners, but when it comes to awarding the Nobel in scientific fields, there is often not enough room in the spotlight to recognize ...
The University will create a new center devoted to brain and behavioral research after receiving a five-year $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the University announced in a press ...
This summer, Professor of Anthropology Douglas Anderson led the first research-driven excavation of Native American human remains from a national park as part of a three-year-old archaeological dig. He, ...
Twenty-four classes were held without power, and 10 were moved from Sayles Hall to alternate locations between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesday, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and University ...
In late 19th- and early 20th-century Providence, the highest honor was to be invited to tea at singer Sissieretta Jones’ house on College Hill, said former state Rep. Ray Rickman. Along with public ...
When Bryan Davis ’94 presents the lost-and-found product Bungee to a crowd, he always starts with an all-too-familiar situation. “(By) a show of hands, how many of you have lost a cell phone before?” ...
Ceci Cerrilla ’16 and one of her friends wanted to make money without getting jobs. So when they saw an ad on a telephone poll requesting subjects for a study, it seemed like a good solution, she said. Joseph ...
Displaying six photographs of video game players’ “game faces” to a crowd in Wilson 102 Tuesday night, Barbara Stafford, professor emerita at the University of Chicago and visiting professor at ...
Brazil faces ongoing challenges as the country strives to continue its economic growth in the long-term, said Cristovam Buarque, a member of the Brazilian senate, in a lecture last night. Buarque’s ...
In an effort to control grade inflation, many professors in the Department of Economics will follow an official departmental recommendation to award 30 percent of students As, 40 percent Bs and 30 percent ...
A new version of the website courses.brown.edu was launched this month, enabling students to access syllabus information from courses for which they are not registered. The remodeling of the website, ...
Starting today, collections of African artwork arranged by an archaeology department class are on display in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Rachel Engmann, a postdoctoral ...
Three leading voices in Rhode Island media discussed the state of local and national politics in a panel discussion organized by Common Cause Rhode Island and the Providence Athenaeum Tuesday evening. ...