In the documentary “Black Motherhood Through the Lens,” Adeiyewunmi Osinubi ’18 MD’22 follows four Black women as they navigate the maternal health care system while dealing with issues of maternal mortality, infertility and postpartum mood disorders.
The Brown Research Club hosted an event called “Underrepresented in STEM” on Sunday, which featured speakers Oludurotimi Adetunji, the associate dean of the college for undergraduate research and inclusive science, and Cel Welch GS, a PhD candidate doing research in biomedical engineering and ...
The Infectious Disease Society, a student group focused on the combination of global public health and clinical medicine, held a soft launch for a new magazine on Feb. 28 in The Underground of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. The club hopes to release the publication online during National ...
Katherine Mason, assistant professor of anthropology, Andrea Flores, assistant professor of education and Sarah Willen, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, recently received a National Science Foundation grant to investigate the effects of the pandemic on first-generation ...
Matthew Johnson, professor of psychedelics and consciousness at Johns Hopkins University, visited campus last Friday to present his talk “Classic Psychedelics in Addiction Treatment” as part of the University’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series.
The recipients of the 2022 Office of the Vice President for Research Seed Awards were announced last month. These funds are designed to help “faculty be more competitive for external grants, from federal funding agencies or foundations,” Vice President for Research Jill Pipher wrote in an email ...
Researchers from Brown and Purdue University have discovered that the asteroid known as Psyche is likely composed of less metallic iron than scientists originally presumed, and that it may include other hidden rocky components.
SBUDNIC, a student-led team building a nanosatellite, is at “crunch time” in its preparations despite delaying its original launch, which had been scheduled for tomorrow in Florida, according to program manager Dheraj Ganjikunta ’22.
Alexander Evans, assistant professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, co-authored a study with Sonia Tikoo, assistant professor of geophysics at Stanford University, highlighting surprising qualities of the ancient moon’s ...
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 ...
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