Yesterday afternoon, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America hosted a book talk featuring Stephon Alexander’s ScM’95 ScM’96 PhD ’00 “Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics.”
A team of students from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design took home the ‘Most Creative Concept’ award after presenting at NASA’s 2021 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing Idea Challenge last week.
The School of Public Health hosted a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube air cleaner building event Friday, Nov. 19, during which University students and staff gathered at Alumnae Hall to construct air filtering cubes that will be placed around campus in the next couple weeks.
Lifespan launched an initiative this fall to hire students as temporary workers to assist with the reduced number of general staff at Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Miriam Hospital caused by the pandemic.
Though e-cigarettes were first introduced into the market as a safer alternative to smoking, their popularity among youth has raised concerns of increased rates of smoking. But, a study published in October pushes back against this worry. Researchers ...
People live and interact in a complex web of social relations, processing a vast amount of social information every day and navigating complex social networks — the webs of relationships, friendships and acquaintances that compose society. In a paper published in September, University researchers ...
The School of Public Health began installing Corsi-Rosenthal Cube air cleaners in SPH classrooms Nov. 1, according to an email sent to the SPH community Oct. 29 by Dean of the School of Public Health Ashish Jha. The Corsi-Rosenthal box, which was created to combat the spread of COVID-19 ...
A masked squadron in brightly colored jumpsuits, singularly focused, ready to kill at any moment, inspiring second-hand fear in the viewer.
Guido Imbens MA ’89, PhD ’91, applied econometrics professor and professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, sits in front of two square images of his children playing chess. Both of his sons started playing the game more during the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. ...
After several semesters of virtual learning, STEM instructors were eager to return to traditional in-person classes this fall semester. Still, many have incorporated virtual teaching methods to their classes this semester. The Herald spoke with five STEM instructors about their experiences with virtual ...
University researchers received a $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine in protecting the nursing home population.
The Office of Naval Research awarded $6.5 million of grant funding in September to faculty researchers at the Brown School of Engineering, who will focus on undersea vehicle and platform research in collaboration with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport.
The number of positive asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on campus has continued to decline for the past four weeks, with only six cases during the week of Oct. 10 to Oct. 15, according to the Healthy Brown COVID-19 Dashboard. ...
At the Plant Environmental Center, located on the rooftop of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society at 85 Waterman St., plants ranging from a bonsai tree over 25 years old to a collection of cycads — a prehistoric plant — find a space to grow and bloom. The Center consists of six ...
The School of Public Health’s Innovations in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences Seminar Series held its first lecture this year on Friday, Oct. 8, with Yale Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Angela Haeny presenting on the impact of racial trauma on substance use treatment for Black adults and ...
There have been 14 asymptomatic positive COVID-19 cases on campus during the week of Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, according to the Healthy Brown COVID-19 Dashboard. Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 called this a “substantial decline” in COVID-19 cases and a “foundational ...
From how to capture CO2 in the atmosphere to how to deliver lifesaving drugs, scientists can answer a variety of questions by studying the movement of nanoparticles.
The past week has seen a significant decrease in positive asymptomatic COVID-19 cases on campus, with eight total confirmed cases during from Sept. 26 to Oct. 3., according to the Healthy Brown COVID-19 Dashboard.
Co-edited by University Professor Josiah “Jody” Rich and Harvard Professor Sarah Wakeman and released Sept. 14, the book “Treating Opioid Use Disorder in General Medical Settings” addresses opioid addiction and treatment and draws on the expertise of a wide range of co-authors.
If you are a PhD student, you have probably heard something along the lines of “this is a PhD, figure it out by yourself.” While PhD students enter their programs expecting to become highly independent researchers, we do not expect to graduate completely unprepared for the job market. ...
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