The Warren Alpert Foundation donated $27 million to the University to expand the MD/PhD program and endow a new professorship at the Brown Institute for Translational Science, the University announced Monday in a press release. The $27 million gift comes almost a decade after the foundation’s initial ...
Researchers at the university’s Climate and Development Lab have published a paper evaluating different financial options to pay for damages caused by climate change. The paper, “Financing options for loss and damage: a review and roadmap,” aims to provide an accessible framework to advance negotiations ...
A recent study co-authored by Professor of Medicine, Health Services and Policy and Practice Michael Stein suggests that, contrary to popular belief, marijuana use may have a negative effect on sleep quality. The study also indicates that anxiety and depression may play a role in both frequency of marijuana ...
Organizational factors such as school leadership, academic expectations, teacher relationships and school safety are strongly correlated with high teacher retention rates and improved student performance, according to a study conducted by Assistant Professor of Education and Economics Matthew Kraft. Kraft ...
Two studies written by University professors that used gravity field data to analyze the structure and formation of the Moon’s Orientale multiring basin were published in the journal Science. One paper, which focused on modeling the development of the transient crater after impact from what was most ...
At this year’s International Genetically Engineered Machine competition held over the weekend, a team of Brown and Stanford University students joined over 300 groups presenting new research in the field of synthetic biology. The Stanford-Brown team presented the fruits of a summer spent at the National ...
Validating readmission as a metric for quality care A comprehensive statistical study in the Health Services Research journal led by Momoatzur Rahman, assistant professor of health services, policy and practice at the School of Public Health, validates the U.S. government’s inclusion of hospital readmission ...
Researchers from Brown as well as Brigham and Women’s Hospital found small but significant links between cocoa consumption and cardiovascular health benefits. The study, led by Xiaochen Lin GS with contributions from Simin Liu, professor of epidemiology, assessed the health benefits of cocoa consumption ...
University researchers developed a new ligase, an enzyme that joins together strands of DNA or RNA and has applications in biotechnology and diagnostics, as described in an Oct. 7 paper in RNA Biology. These enzymes have many uses. Ligases play a role in the construction of DNA sequences from many ...
University researchers have developed a novel imaging technique that distinguishes cells that have gone through a change that occurs during cancerous growth — among other processes — from cells that have not. A study published Oct. 3 describes the development and impressive accuracy of this tool, ...
Assistant Professor of Biostastitics Xi Luo and other researchers have received a grant of more than $1.2 million over three years from the National Institutes of Health to use big data modeling to study brain connectivity. The grant will allow Luo, as well his collaborators at Johns Hopkins University ...
One could say the brain is an interdisciplinary organ. When visual stimuli arrive, little does the occipital lobe care that it is distinct in name and function from the frontal lobe. It relies on its front-brained counterpart to kickstart the needed response. One could also say, then, that Brown takes ...
From the use of fume hoods to the multiple trainings that students must attend to work in a lab, safety precautions and protocols are emphasized across University research laboratories. Safety regulation and building upkeep are monitored in tandem by departmental safety committees, the Department of ...
Researchers from Brown and Rhode Island hospitals hope that transcranial magnetic stimulation will become the first successful treatment for frontotemporal dementia. FTD is a neurodegenerative disease and is “the second most common cause of dementia in younger people — individuals under 65 — following ...
Reducing children’s lead levels can lead to significant positive effects on test scores, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper issued in August co-authored by Anna Aizer, associate professor of economics and public policy. Though the United States currently has historically ...
University researchers examined how people judge competence and morality based on observed levels of self-enhancement in a study published Oct. 4. In online surveys, participants assessed male characters who claimed to be above or below average in conjunction with evidence that supported or refuted ...
Animal rights organization Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! filed an official complaint against the University with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Oct. 2. SAEN reviewed internal records sent from a University administrator to the National Institutes of Health after submitting a public request for ...
Brain blast A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience and co-authored by Dima Amso, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, found that infants use the prefrontal cortex in learning, according to a University press release. Researchers previously thought that the ...
Alexander Blum ’16, a former Herald metro editor, became the first Brown student to be recognized by the international academic program the Undergraduate Awards, winning honors in the United States and Canada region. Blum won in the earth and environmental sciences category for his paper “Rational ...
Formaldehyde, a known toxicant and carcinogen, is more harmful than previously believed, according to a study co-authored by Anatoly Zhitkovich, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School. The study, published Sept. 14 in the American Journal of Pathology, suggests ...
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