Since the 1990s, opioid deaths have skyrocketed, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From April 2020 to April 2021, 75,673 Americans died of opioid overdoses. The opioid crisis has long been associated with white Americans in parts of the country undergoing ...
Recruited on the promise of complementary pizza and t-shirts, multiple groups of 20 research participants paced Sayles Hall as part of a new study from University researchers modeling flocking behavior in humans. The study, published ...
AtomICs, a data storage and computing startup led by University researchers, won the first place prize of $25,000 at the 2022 Brown Venture Prize competition, The Herald previously reported. AtomICs is the first PhD student and faculty team to win a Brown Venture Prize and is led by Dana Biechele-Speziale ...
NASA astrophysicist and citizen science officer Marc Kuchner facilitated a seminar Tuesday in Barus and Holley on the growing importance of “citizen science” — an uncoordinated collection of independent volunteers around the world — in advancing the discovery of exoplanets and planet formation. ...
The School of Public Health hosted its annual Public Health Research Day Tuesday in Alumnae Hall. Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral participants as well as representatives from the Rhode Island Department of Health presented 73 different posters showcasing their work in the field of public health. ...
Early this month, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced the 2022 Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards. Named in honor of the chancellor of the University from 1977 to 1988, the awards provide up to $15,000 in funding to each accepted project, Vice President of Research Jill ...
The 2022 Research Achievement Awards were recently awarded to eight University researchers across multiple disciplines. Awardees will receive $5,000 in funding and be honored at the annual research celebration in the spring, according to the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Last month, a study published by University researchers used a simulation model to show that suspending syringe services programs would lead to an increase ...
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 ...
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