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 ...
New research led by a Brown graduate student and professor explores a new technology they believe has promise to be much faster than current communication signals such as Wi-Fi. The paper, published in Nature online Sept. 14, marks a significant contribution to telecommunications by creating a proof-of-concept ...
As archaeology and anthropology undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members transition back to life on College Hill, the start of the semester marks a hiatus from their fieldwork undertaken around the globe this summer. The Department of Anthropology sent people to 14 countries, including ...
“My first semester of freshman year I was so scared that I would fail my first computer science class,” said Sachin Pendse ’17. “But when I started thinking about coding as something creative — being able to make something that people can use — instead of mathematical, I started to like ...
After more than a decade of controversy surrounding a 2001 clinical trial led by a Brown professor on the effects of the antidepressant Paxil, a reanalysis of the original data claims the drug is no more effective than a placebo and that the initial study underplayed the drug’s potential to increase ...
Hitting baby dolls with rocks might not sound like something worthy of course credit, but for some undergraduate classes it might be. As students continue pairing down their course lists, many of those who decide to take courses in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences will ...
Over the past few years, the University has seen a significant rise in the number of departments offering fifth-year master’s programs that are exclusive to Brown students. Sixteen programs currently exist, spanning the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Sociology, the newest addition, will ...
When Professor of Material Engineering Nitin Padture arrived at Brown in 2012, he felt his past research had been significant, but that he could start using research to also make a difference. Given the demand for renewable energy, Padture and his team turned to the field of photovoltaics, in which ...
Researchers recommend new pneumonia drug dosage for obese patients A new study conducted by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is affiliated with the Brown Alpert Medical School, examines the ideal dose of medicine for administration to obese and extremely obese patients presumed ...
Looking at bright screens before bed can impair sleep quality, especially among children between ages nine and 14.7, according to a study by University researchers, which was published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism last month. Headed by Professor of Psychiatry and Human ...
Hepatitis C affects millions of people nationwide, but the disease is especially prevalent in prisons: Approximately 17 percent of Rhode Island inmates are infected, according to a new study by University researchers. Diagnosing and treating all of these cases incurs a large financial burden on the ...
This article is the third in a three-part series exploring the history and current state of women’s role in STEM education. “I ask myself this constant stream of questions: have I proven myself? Do I belong here? Is my whole life going to be a struggle if I continue with this?” said Amy Butcher ...
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