“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 helped advise this year’s Stanford-Brown iGEM, or International Genetically Engineered Machine, group. ...
Administrators, faculty members and students are working to address the underrepresentation of students from certain minority groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — known as STEM fields — by expanding initiatives to address inequalities in students’ pre-college preparation ...
University professors lauded a federal initiative to fund brain research aims to improve treatment for a variety of neurological and psychiatric conditions that was announced last week. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the initiative will allocate more than $70 million over ...
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 major challenges they face. “As a collective, this is a struggle,” said Jamelle Watson-Daniels ...
When neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg received a call from a mysterious number a month ago, she did not expect to hear from the MacArthur Foundation, announcing she’d won the prestigious $625,000 MacArthur Fellowship. “I thought the call was from a guy I’d gone on a date with,” said Nirenberg, ...
Link between HIV and HPV risk confirmed in men While the link between human papillomavirus infection and human immunodeficiency virus has been studied in females in the past, a new study by University researchers in the Department of Epidemiology has found this link in males as well. Examining data ...
Humans and rats have cognitive similarities when reacting to their own errors, according to new research conducted at Brown and Yale. The findings could help further research aiming to treat problems involving a brain mechanism known as adaptive control, the authors wrote in the study, published in ...
Paralyzed individuals who feel trapped in their bodies may soon have the opportunity to communicate more easily, thanks to a new non-profit organization inspired by University research. The organization SpeakYourMind was founded earlier this year by Dan Bacher, a researcher on the University’s BrainGate ...
While ethnic and racial groups that have historically comprised a minority of the U.S. population are growing in size and influence, they remain underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics both nationally and at Brown. Administrators and higher education experts ...
The $1 million Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund Breakthrough Research and Innovation in Neurotechnology Prize was awarded to BrainGate researchers for their creation of a brain-computer interface that could aid people with paralysis. Israeli President Shimon Peres presented the award to Professor of ...
Kevin Robinson has been knocked unconscious 30 times and received more than 100 concussions in his 23-year career as a professional BMX rider. “Nobody’s ever taken (head injury) seriously,” he said in a lecture Thursday at the Alpert Medical School entitled “Diagnosed with a Concussion, Now ...
At the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee in California — made famous in Mark Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” — three researchers discovered potential flaws in the study of the maximal jumping performance of bullfrogs, lending insight into why Jubilee ...
A mummy unwrapping party marked the launch of a mentoring partnership between the Egyptology-Ancient West Asian Studies Department Undergraduate Group and the Egyptology department’s graduate students Thursday night. Julia Troche GS said the party was fitting for a social event among undergraduates, ...
Making grabbing motions in thin air and tossing invisible balls of energy behind her, Bridget Bourne, Reiki master teacher and practitioner, demonstrated the 80-year-old Japanese healing process of Reiki on an audience member in the Peterruti Lounge yesterday. The second program in Wellness at Brown’s ...
Children’s brains change in unexpected ways as they develop language, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University and King’s College in London. The study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience Oct. 9. The researchers focused on the development of myelin, the fatty ...
Student wins SACNAS awards The University’s chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science won two awards from the national organization earlier this month. David Barrera ’15 was honored for his research on “the effect of heat stress on tomato plant fertilization,” ...
A new model to represent blood circulation may offer a valuable tool in examining different hematological diseases’ effect on bloodflow. The model, developed by Professor of Applied Mathematics George Karniadakis and collaborators, sheds light on the details of blood disorders at the cellular level ...
A urine classification chart, a Renaissance-era classroom dissection and a pediatric skeleton walking upright along a grassy field were all images featured at the “Making Visual Biology” workshop held Thursday evening. The event, which united art and biology, was co-hosted by the John Hay Library ...
About 20 students worked to design assistive technologies for people with communication disabilities during the “Speak Your Mind” workshop Thursday night in List 110. The event was hosted by STEAM, a student group formed last academic year that seeks to merge art with traditional STEM disciplines ...
A University celebration of women in science started with a tweet and culminated in a five-hour website “edit-a-thon” hosted Tuesday afternoonin the Pembroke Center. Months ago, Maia Weinstock ’99 posted a message on Twitter directed at Anne Fausto-Sterling, a professor of biology and Weinstock’s ...
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