“Seeing race is a social, rather than merely visual, experience,” said Osagie Obasogie, a professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of Law, in a lecture Tuesday afternoon. This conclusion, which Obasogie reached through his research, could have implications for policy and ...
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 online Jan. 31 in the journal Aging, the mutation also exists in wild fruit flies, according to ...
Lina Fruzzetti, professor of anthropology, recently published a book entitled “When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made, Choices Challenged.” Fruzzetti held a book signing Tuesday at the Brown Bookstore for her new work, which chronicles the tales of inter-caste and inter-religious marriages in Bishnupur, ...
New and detailed assessments of centuries-old burial sites suggest Phoenicians and their Carthaginian successors performed rituals of child sacrifice — adding new evidence to a mystery archaeologists have long debated. The new analysis, co-authored by Professor of Archaeology Peter Van Dommelen, ...
Researchers combed through the abstracts of over 6,000 studies to analyze youth ethnic-racial affect — how positive a person feels about their own race or ethnicity — in a meta-analysis published Feb. 3 in the journal Child Development. They concluded that feelings of ethnic pride and happiness ...
Tens of thousands of people flee their home countries every year to avoid persecution, seeking asylum in the United States. But the United States does not grant asylum to all of these individuals because many of them lack hard evidence of abuse. For this reason, the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic ...
Researchers model new nanomaterial Thirty-six boron atoms in the shape of a flat donut with a hexagonal hole could become an important new nanomaterial if scientists can find a way to produce it in the lab, according to a recent study in Nature Communications. Lai-Sheng Wang, principal investigator ...
The nature of conversations between physicians and their patients regarding HIV/AIDS medication varies with the race and ethnicity of the patient, according to a study published in the journal AIDS and Behavior last month. Michael Barton Laws, assistant professor of health services, policy and practice, ...
Personalized feedback about how students’ drinking habits stack up against those of their peers could be more effective at reducing first-years’ alcohol intake than bolstering alcohol education programs, according to a scientific literature review written by a team led by University researchers. The ...
J. Timmons Roberts, professor of environmental studies and sociology, will travel to Japan this July to receive the 2014 Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology. Given out once every four years, the award is presented by a branch of the International ...
Many prisoners do not receive adequate health care upon their release, a problem that was the focal point of an event entitled “Incarceration, Disparities and Health in America in the Age of Health Care Reform” held Friday in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The symposium ...
Practitioners of Buddhist meditation have reported seeing globes, jewels and little stars during meditation-induced light experiences. The neurobiological explanation for these visions was the subject of a recent study led by Willoughby Britton, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, ...
A joint team of researchers from Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully killed bacteria resistant to typical antibiotics by increasing the potency of a class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides, or ADEPs. Their study was published Jan. 14 in the Journal of the American ...
A recent study co-led by Professor of Neurology Stephen Salloway found that bapineuzumab, a drug previously thought to slow the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, causes no improvement in patients’ memories or daily functioning. The primary clinical results were “disappointing” because positive ...
Sexting — sending sexually explicit messages or pictures — has been proven “not uncommon” for at-risk early adolescents in a study published Jan. 6 by a team lead by Christopher Houck, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior. The study found 22 percent of seventh-grade participants ...
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 Alpert Medical School, the Providence Journal reported. After arriving in Providence in ...
The comb jelly — a shapeless, squishy blob that reflects the colors around it — may be our most distant animal relative, according to a study conducted by an international team of researchers that included Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn. The study was published last month in the journal ...
Many Brown researchers spend their days working with mice, bats and primates, a practice that many members of the community call a scientific necessity. But others say they find animal research morally ambiguous, an opinion that has become especially salient due to a recent complaint filed against a ...
An animal welfare group has filed a claim with federal regulators alleging that a study examining alcohol’s effects on pigs led by an Alpert Medical School faculty member violated the Animal Welfare Act. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit based in Washington that promotes ...
Researchers such as Ryan Carney GS can now determine the skin color of extinct reptiles — knowledge that can lead to insight about their behaviors. Carney and his colleagues performed a detailed chemical analysis of reptilian pigment molecules, with the resulting study published in Nature Jan 8. “Our ...
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