“One of my goals throughout my whole life (has been) to literally walk on another planet,” said Connor Lynch ’17. “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Rather than a pipe dream, Lynch’s aspirations of becoming an astronaut are not so distant from reality. Lynch was recently accepted ...
Within certain University biology departments, women make up nearly half of the faculty, and within the department of behavioral and social sciences, 70 percent of faculty members are women. But disparities still exist within science, technology, engineering and math fields. In the applied math, mathematics ...
The phrase “big data” — and the vast, daunting numbers it implies — is thrown around a lot these days. To illustrate the concept, Helen Nissenbaum, professor of media, culture and communication and computer science at New York University, turned to something much more familiar: the emoji. In ...
Thousands of miles may separate Providence from the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, but viruses have a way of making the globe seem small. “We do expect that we will have a case (in Rhode Island),” said Rebecca Reece, medical consultant for the Rhode Island Department of Health and assistant professor ...
Computer vision technology aids in classification of leaves Though the vein structures of leaves may help identify plants, botanists seldom refer to them due to the difficulty involved in deciphering their variations. But in a study released this month, researchers found that computer vision and artificial ...
Logging into Banner just got a little bit harder. As of last week, all students, with the exception of those studying abroad, have been enrolled in the new two-step verification system that adds an additional layer of security to the Brown network, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for computing and ...
Researchers from Rhode Island Hospital have found a link between cognitive impairment and epilepsy, according to a study published in the journal Epilepsy and Behavior this month. While epilepsy itself is not always neurodegenerative, the study revealed that those with epilepsy exhibit “much higher ...
Researchers at the School of Public Health have found a correlation between mindfulness and plasma glucose levels. The study, led by Eric Loucks, assistant professor of epidemiology, found that participants who were more mindful were more likely to have a normal plasma glucose level and thus not be ...
Three junior faculty members in the School of Engineering have received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Awards of approximately $500,000 over the course of five years. Franklin Goldsmith, David Henann and Andrew Peterson, all assistant professors of engineering, will join the nearly one third ...
The image of a city on the Moon is, in many circles, still the stuff of science fiction. But at this weekend’s Space Horizons workshop, participants were interested in talking about when it should be built and what it should look like. The School of Engineering has hosted the Space Horizons workshop ...
Nine Brown and RISD students had the unique opportunity Thursday to tour the laboratory of Ginkgo Bioworks, a major biotechnology company, to learn more about the new field of biological design. The students met biologists and designers and examined miniature breweries containing bacteria and culture ...
Researchers awarded project grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Nancy Barnett, professor of behavioral and social science research, and a team of fellow investigators have received an R01 research project grant, an award for health-related work offered by the National Institute ...
In the last decade, many medical schools have removed the requirement for a second semester of organic chemistry and added a semester of biochemistry, said Joanne McEvoy, director of admission at the Warren Alpert Medical School. With recent changes to the MCAT adding material on biochemistry and behavioral ...
Ten thousand middle school students in 17 states are now designing video games while solving algebra problems, thanks to Bootstrap, a curriculum developed by Emmanuel Schanzer, Shriram Krishnamurthi, professor of computer science and Kathryn Fisler, adjunct professor of computer science. Initiated in ...
When it comes to skipping stones, kids know to look for the perfect rock. But according to a team of researchers from the School of Engineering, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport and Utah State University, it is elastic balls that they should be after. In a paper published Feb. 4, the team ...
Pre-medical students wrote a petition last week calling for the University to expand the offerings of certain chemistry courses in order to allow students who take CHEM 0100: “Introductory Chemistry” to finish their requirements earlier in their academic careers. The petition, which has accumulated ...
Warren Alpert Medical School students now have the opportunity to undertake extracurricular studies in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer healthcare and advocacy as part of the school’s scholarly concentration program, thanks to the efforts of two undergraduates. Morgan Cheatham ’17 ...
Researchers propose aberrant genes as cure for ALS After six years studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease, a team of five University faculty members received a $1.8 million research grant from the ALS Finding a Cure Foundation this fall. They will use this grant ...
Gabriel Taubin, a professor at the School of Engineering, and Daniel Moreno GS, a fifth-year computer engineering PhD student, recently designed an algorithm allowing ordinary smart phones and digital cameras to become 3D scanners. The idea came to them when they started questioning if it was possible ...
Rhode Island College hosted the 2016 Trans* Health Conference Jan. 30, offering presentations throughout the day to over 350 physicians, nurses, mental health care providers, medical students and trans* attendees. Within the doctor’s office and in greater society, people who are trans* — a term ...
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