University researchers and local religious leaders are working together to study Alzheimer’s in an ongoing collaboration called U.S. POINTER. In an effort to build trust and increase participation among Black Americans, researchers and religious ...
Through her work with Community Noise Lab, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Erica Walker studies the ways in which water, noise and air pollution impact urban living. She investigates urban pollution in areas affected by environmental injustice and conducts fieldwork in New England and Mississippi. ...
By studying the properties of superconductors — materials that can carry electricity without heating up — scientists can gain a novel understanding of basic physical laws. These new insights offer potential applications in developing new ways to transport electricity and producing ...
University researchers have developed a new connective tissue model to study disorders like fibrosis, a type of scarring that occurs when damage to the body causes normal tissue to be replaced by hard, fibrous connective tissue. In a paper recently published in the journal ...
Brown’s 2022 Love Data Week took place last week from Feb. 14 to 18. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Library, the event, which is part of an annual “international celebration of data,” aims to “raise awareness and build a community to engage on ...
Five University professors were elected as 2021 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS is the “world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals,” ...
For Amanda Lynch, professor of earth, environment and planetary sciences at the Institute of Brown for Environment and Society, January 2022 brought the beginning of her new position as chair of the Research Board on Weather, Climate, Water and the Environment for the World Meteorological Organization, ...
As cases of the Omicron variant started to appear in the U.S. in December, researchers at the University began work on making significant readjustments to their epidemiological models — which help predict COVID-19 curves and inform policy-makers — to reflect the pandemic’s new conditions. ...
With the semester just beginning and over 100 positive COVID-19 test results on campus, University health experts agree rapid antigen tests are a pivotal tool for students to keep both themselves and others safe. But unlike PCR testing, which offers little room for improvisation, at-home test-takers ...
University researchers specializing in biostatistics were awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health, amounting to $4.6 million over five years, according to a recent press release from the Warren Alpert Medical School. The first grant will fund work to develop machine-learning tools ...
On Friday, Jan. 28, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Nadje Al-Ali and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Patsy Lewis invited four experts to participate in a virtual panel discussion on the intersections of climate change, displacement and gender. The ...
For the first time, researchers have recorded electrical signals from the brains of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder over a prolonged period of time, allowing them to capture the brain activity of patients with daily OCD symptom fluctuations. In a study ...
Pharmaceuticals play an important role in treating diseases and alleviating symptoms, but they can also have adverse effects. One of these possible effects is causing or exacerbating arrhythmia, which is the improper beating of the heart, according to the American ...
Every five years, a team of researchers and industry leaders with expertise in varying fields tied to artificial intelligence come together to create a report on ...
A team of Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students recently won the inaugural Google Biodesign Sprint for their project Mobius, a manufacturing and disposal process for a biodegradable printed circuit board, or PCB.
A team of Brown researchers is designing an assessment to improve the selection of cancer treatments in older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. In their population-based study published Nov. 30, the researchers examined ...
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.
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