Appearances deceiving in salt marsh recovery Once-depleted salt marshes in Cape Cod may be growing green and tall now, but that does not mean they are protecting the land from erosion, according to a new study by University researchers. These results concern ecologists because “the metric of a ...
Updated Monday, Sept. 22 at 11:45 p.m. When Dawn King, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, asked her class how many students were planning to attend this weekend’s People’s Climate March in New York, the response “inspired” her, she said. Sixty percent of her class was planning ...
The sexual double standard — the concept that women are more highly criticized for sexual activity than men are — may play a role in bullying victimization among high school girls, according to a new study led by a team of University researchers. “Sexually active girls have 2.27 times the odds ...
Professor of Neuroscience Diane Lipscombe will become interim director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science Jan. 1, when current director John Donoghue, professor of neuroscience, embarks on a year-long sabbatical in Switzerland, Provost Vicki Colvin and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences ...
HIV research and prevention is an ever-changing field, and Miriam Hospital is helping lead a new grant to develop innovative ways to deliver HIV-fighting drugs to women. The hospital announced last week that it has received a portion of a $20 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop and ...
Yoga may have potential health benefits for people suffering from bipolar disorder, according to recent findings by University researchers. “We have just completed a larger study of yoga as an adjunctive treatment for people with unipolar depression,” wrote Lisa Uebelacker, an associate professor ...
The Ebola virus epidemic may be happening thousands of miles away, but that is not stopping University faculty and students from trying to help fight the deadly disease. Both Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Adam Levine and Professor of Medicine Timothy Flanigan are working to combat the outbreak ...
High blood pressure — also known as hypertension — may have previously unforeseen implications for the brain that can even cause dementia in some older adults, according to a study published by a team of researchers including several from Brown. “Hypertension can lead to vascular narrowing,” ...
A new model in mice, developed by University researchers, could aid the understanding of human fat tissue growth in fetuses. In the study, published in the Journal of Lipid Research Sept. 5, the researchers transplanted the living fat tissue of human fetuses into mice, where the tissue grew in vivo. ...
The typical museum seeks to preserve a part of the past so that future generations may learn from its artifacts. The Lost Museum, a recently opened installation in Rhode Island Hall, takes a slightly different approach, preserving a museum itself so that visitors can draw conclusions from the objects ...
Grad student determines best way to see through cells While three-dimensional cell cultures are often more realistic than two-dimensional ones, they are more difficult to view due to their complex, multi-layered structure. This challenge led Molly Boutin GS to set out to determine the best existing ...
Students got to experience life from the eyes of a chicken they may have eaten during a virtual reality simulation hosted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Monday and Tuesday in the basement of Faunce House. The exhibit, “I, Chicken,” stopped on campus during a countrywide college ...
In recent years, sports-related concussions — especially in young athletes involved in high-impact sports — have become a topic of widespread discussion and concern. Responding to growing worries about student concussions, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed the School and Youth Programs Concussions ...
This summer, the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards program sponsored projects ranging from perfecting the flight of drones to mentoring local high school students and even exploring the meaning of time. Since the 1980s, the UTRA program has fostered intellectual development and creativity ...
Universities experience a constant turnover of faculty members and students, so ideas are frequently lost, said John Donoghue, professor of neuroscience and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. Students become experts in certain skills and techniques, but then they move on, and many of ...
The watchdog group Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! filed an official complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Aug. 27 calling for a more complete investigation of the University’s past self-reported Animal Welfare Act violations, said Julia Orr, communications director of SAEN. If the USDA’s ...
Carbon dioxide and copper prove useful Rather than billowing into the sky as air pollution, excess carbon dioxide may provide an ingredient for manufacturing industrial chemicals, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University’s Center for the Capture and Conversion of Carbon Dioxide. The ...
Attempts to control the brain through direct stimulation have a long history in neuroscientific study, dating back to the ancient Egyptians, said Christopher Moore, associate professor of neuroscience. Moore and his colleagues have continued this line of inquiry in a study, published in Nature Neuroscience ...
A brilliant physics mind, witty coffee date and caring mentor, Gerald Guralnik is remembered as a father figure both inside and outside the classroom. Guralnik, a professor of physics who coauthored one of the three papers that laid the groundwork for the discovery of the Higgs boson, passed away ...
A new wide-scale research initiative announced last week will allow University faculty members and medical professionals to investigate quality and efficacy in long-term and post-acute medical care. In collaboration with the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living, ...
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