Some of the University’s most valuable scientific works lie behind unlocked doors. Granted, the room is alarmed, said Holly Snyder, librarian and curator of American Historical Collections, as she walked into the Lownes Reading Room, located on the second floor of the John Hay library. The room is ...
This profile is part of a series focused on Brown faculty members and students engaged in science and research, with the purpose of highlighting and making more accessible the work being pursued at all levels across disciplines. For all researchers, including economists, a paper is only as good as ...
University researchers have found a way to grow a brain in a Petri dish. About a third of a millimeter in diameter, these “mini-brains” are composed of neurons and supporting cells that form synaptic connections and produce complex networks. They have a three-dimensional, spherical shape known as ...
When Peter Norvig ’78 P’16 P'18, director of research at Google, enrolled at Brown, he knew almost nothing about computer science — a nascent field in which classes had just begun to be offered and for which there was no concentration. “I thought it was an obscure and strange branch of mathematics ...
The efficacy of antidepressants over placebos is a long-standing question in the practice of psychiatry. This question, and the narrowing gap in success rates between antidepressants and placebos prescribed for depressed patients, were explored in an article co-authored by Professor of Clinical Psychiatry ...
University researchers recently led a study comparing the success of students in the eight-year Program in Liberal Medical Education with the performance of students admitted to the Alpert Medical School through the traditional route. The study, published online in the journal Academic Medicine Sept. ...
The University has launched the Brown Pre-College Scholars Program in Engineering, a new program that allows students at a private, Catholic, all-girls school in Brooklyn, New York to take an online course led by a Brown professor during class time, said Ren Whitaker, director of online development ...
The results of a new University study suggest a link between an area of the brain called the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex and the ability to stay on track in a sequence of tasks. The paper — published in the journal Neuron and authored by David Badre, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic ...
A paper recently published by a University researcher reports on the causes of burnout among doctors, as well as the impact of burnout on the quality of patient care. Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Joseph Rabatin, lead author of the article, worked alongside faculty from universities across ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza joined three other panel members, including University of Chicago Professor of Surgery Dana Suskind, to discuss Providence Talks — a 2013 initiative designed to improve children’s vocabularies — at a policy forum in Petteruti Lounge Monday. The panel members focused on the necessity ...
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The Providence-based DNA sequencing company Nabsys is shutting its doors after nearly eight years in operation. Nabsys was formed in 2007 as a merger between two research projects started by University scientists. The company’s mission was to improve genome mapping and analysis using “strategic ...
The National Science Foundation renewed the $17.5 million grant that funds the operations of the University’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, according to a University press release. The five-year grant will fund programs, workshops and conferences held at ICERM ...
“Why are young Westerners drawn to terrorist organizations like ISIS?” That is the question that Omar Sultan Haque, a psychiatry resident at the Alpert Medical School, explored in a cover-page article of the same name for the September edition of Psychiatric Times along with his co-authors Jihye ...
Researchers from the University and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management are working to determine the causes of an increased number of dead fish in local waters this summer. Hundreds of dead menhaden fish washed ashore in the Providence River and Narragansett Bay this summer, prompting ...
In 2013, 46 of every 100,000 jail inmates committed suicide, marking nearly four times the suicide rate for the total U.S. population, according to a report published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. That number triples to 128 deaths per every 100,000 former detainees a year after jail release, ...
A new $4.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund University researchers’ investigation of whether mindfulness can help patients to better heal and adhere to set medical regimens. The five-year grant encompasses two phases of research, according to a University press release. ...
Fast Company magazine selected Techstyle Haus — a solar house created by students from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, Germany — as one of nine finalists in the student category of its 2015 “Innovation by Design” competition. Techstyle ...
Updated September, 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM In a partnership with the Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, the University will establish a new institute to advance children’s health, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced Monday at a joint press conference ...
This profile is part of a series focused on Brown faculty members and students engaged in science and research, with the purpose of highlighting and making more accessible the work being pursued at all levels across disciplines. Professor of Neurology Brian Ott will soon begin conducting research on ...
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