Brown community members are using crowdsourced funding websites to raise money for personal causes, nonprofit organizations and now scientific research, thanks to experiment.com — the Kickstarter of the academic world. As an alternative to applying for research grants, some Brown community members ...
In August, a Dutch tourist crashed an unmanned aerial vehicle — widely referred to as a drone — into an active hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. He was fined over $3,000 for operating a drone illegally in a U.S. national park, according to a September BBC News article. Operating unmanned ...
Around one-third of students have worked on research while at Brown, according to a Herald poll conducted Oct. 22-23. But this percentage varies largely based on factors such as class year and concentration. While only about 15 percent of first-years and sophomores have participated in research, more ...
“We really want to talk about two sides to this story,” said Guy Edwards, a research fellow at the University’s Institute for the Study of the Environment and Society and co-director of the Climate and Development Lab, Friday at an event entitled “Chinese-Latin American Relations: Toward a More ...
Thinking about the long-term health effects of eating unhealthful foods may be a useful way to combat cravings, according to a study led by Kathryn Demos, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior. She presented her findings as part of Obesity Week 2014, which took place Nov. 2-7. Obesity ...
This profile is part of a series focused on Brown faculty 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. Though Leila Blatt ’15 has taken courses across a range of disciplines, she ...
Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease may share the same genetic origin, according to a recent study that integrated data collected from over 15,000 women and was conducted by University researchers. Researchers examined the genomes — or entire set of genes — of the white, black and Hispanic ...
New University research reinforces current recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics that suggest middle and high schools should not start classes prior to 8:30 a.m. The research reveals that older adolescents are more likely to go to sleep later than younger ones, but do not wake up significantly ...
Cross one hand over the other. Interlace the fingers from your top hand onto your palm. Set your shoulders and elbows straight, and push. These are the basic steps that comprise hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, an American Heart Association recognized method of CPR. Brown Emergency Medical ...
The costs of war extend beyond the obvious — from the mental impact on veterans to the loss of jobs, the costs are far reaching. Two papers recently released through the Costs of War Project, started four years ago by the Watson Institute for International Studies, contribute additional information ...
The Garibaldi Panorama is a 273-foot, double-sided watercolor painting that depicts the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general and politician. The painting, which is more than four feet tall and housed on an enormous scroll, is a relic of a once-popular art form called the moving panorama — ...
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 9:30 p.m. Four research projects led by Brown faculty members are under investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, as part of a series of inquiries into grant selection details — including the names of peer reviewers — related to about ...
Much of the public perception of the 1960s civil rights movement is skewed and needs to be readdressed, said Charles Cobb, a civil rights scholar and visiting associate professor of Africana studies, during a book talk Tuesday. Providence community members and students gathered to hear Cobb discuss ...
Administering a local anesthetic decreases the pain patients feel during an important procedure for staging breast cancer, but does not interfere with the surgeon’s ability to determine tumor presence, according to a new study by University researchers in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear ...
Some residential neighborhoods in Providence do not have sidewalks, which is problematic, said Peter Asen, director of the Providence Healthy Communities Office, during the public forum Place Matters: Design for Population Health. The forum, which focused on the importance of creating infrastructure ...
Perhaps the most visually striking feature of the the University Herbarium is its angular, zigzagging glass wall that projects into a second-floor hallway of the BioMedical Center. The herbarium — a collection of over 100,000 specimens of dried and pressed plants, algae, mosses and fungi — opened ...
This profile is part of a series focused on Brown faculty 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. Many compounds in the environment — whether ingredients in food or materials ...
At Brown, making money is a taboo subject, as most students don’t want to talk about pursuing their passion for profit. But making money isn’t a bad thing, Chief Technology Officer at Delphix Adam Leventhal ’01 told an audience of around 40 students and faculty members at a lecture Wednesday in ...
The terms “opioids,” “naloxone” and “rescue breathing” are unknown to many, but the makers behind “Staying Alive On the Outside” are looking to change that. “Staying Alive,” an educational video on drug overdose prevention, serves as both a narrative about the deadly effects of ...
The criminal justice system must ensure both public safety and public health, said Jennifer Johnson, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior. But jails and prisons in the United States do not provide effective health care for their prisoners, especially women. Johnson delivered a lecture ...
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