Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine Ramu Kharel is working to pay for and distribute sanitation kits following a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Nepal.
Concentration investigates intersections between brain sciences, computer science, applied math, data analysis, ethics
Brown researchers from Warren Alpert Medical School used a “sham AI” to study the effects of AI on radiologist performance.
A team of researchers from Brown and Cornell have developed VRoxy, a new virtual reality software.
An Oct. working paper from researchers at the School of Public Health and the University of Southern California found that distributing vaccines more equitably could have saved another 670,000 lives.
The second annual BioWeek from Oct. 29 to Nov.3 sought to build community and demystify biology through events.
Since the University’s MRI Research Facility opened for operations in early 2007 as part of the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences, it has been a crucial resource for Brown researchers.
What does science have to do with abstraction? Can music exist without sound? What are the roles that images play in science and art? These were but a few of the questions discussed by physicists and artists alike at Friday’s “For the Love of Physics: A Celebration of Music, Art and Nature” ...
On Aug. 24, Richard Schwartz, professor of mathematics, published a preprint paper to arXiv.org that proved a conjecture that has stumped mathematicians for nearly 50 years: What is the shortest strip of paper needed to create a Möbius strip?
Just north of campus, in the University-operated Ladd Observatory, members of the public gathered in a Victorian-style house on a clear Tuesday night to peer through a 19th-century telescope at the cosmos above. Brown student workers were available at the observatory, guiding visitors as they gained ...
Pandemic Center’s year-long series to explore intersection of public health, storytelling
On Oct. 4, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Moungi Bawendi, Columbia Professor Louis E. Brus and scientist Aleksey Yekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” For Ou Chen, associate ...
Cooper’s lab “surveyed thousands of … students with anxiety and depression.”
KardioStatus, a Brown-based biotechnology software development company, uses biometric data and AI to predict individual patient outcomes.
Students and affiliated faculty are exploring the growing field of Indigenous archaeology
Researchers at the Warren Alpert Medical School have found a new biomarker for preeclampsia, a high blood pressure condition that develops during pregnancy.
Armed with waterproof notebooks and an “underlying assumption that things are worth investigating,” students in a new geology course at the University are traveling to the far edges of Rhode Island to observe, measure and map rocks, according to Eben “Blake” Hodgin, assistant professor of ...
In 2019, a team of researchers based at Brown and the University of Minnesota launched the HerbUX project, The Herald previously reported. Focused on making digital herbarium collections more accessible, the team spent two years working with industry professionals and surveying community members to ...
Explore the history of public health education at Brown
World Alzheimer’s Day was last Thursday, Sept. 21.
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