Applications for Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards increased significantly this year to nearly 400 applicants, said Besenia Rodriguez ’00, associate dean of the college for research and upperclass studies and director of the UTRA program. Following recent outreach efforts from the Dean of ...
Salvia divinorum — the purple-flowered plant native to the Mazatec region of Mexico — has emerged as a globally traded commodity, Paja Faudree, assistant professor of anthropology, said Thursday at the final science and technology studies lunchtime lecture of the year. While salvia is known by ...
A recent molecular discovery by neuroscientists at Brown and Boston Children’s Hospital has brought researchers closer to finding a possible treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a debilitating neuron disease that causes progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. By testing a drug that normally ...
Nobel laureates ask Congress not to cut research funding A group of Nobel laureates, including Professor of Physics Leon Cooper, signed a letter to Congress urging its members not to cut research funding as part of the budget sequester, the New York Times reported. The letter, which will be made public ...
The science fiction trope of reading another person’s thoughts may be one step closer to reality, thanks to recent developments in research related to the decoding of dreams. In a study published last Thursday in the journal Science, a joint team of researchers from Japan and Brown used a machine-learning ...
Several strategic planning committees were created last fall to shape the long-term goals for President Christina Paxson’s tenure. The formation of one such committee — the Committee on Educational Innovation — underscored the University’s goal to lead in higher education in developing education ...
The Open Curriculum and nearly two-year window for students to declare a concentration give Brown students the freedom to change their minds about their academic interests — including students who come to Brown considering concentrating in engineering or pursuing the pre-medical school track. The ...
The University announced the launch of the TRI-Lab — an initiative aimed to unite students, faculty members and community partners to address social issues collaboratively — at an event Wednesday morning at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The lab will be piloted starting ...
Autism disorders affect children’s brains differently than they do in adults’ brains, according to new research led by Daniel Dickstein, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior. The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry last month, ...
BRAIN initiative to include U. faculty President Obama announced the launch of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative Tuesday, stating that the federal government would devote around $100 million to the project in fiscal year 2014, according to the White House ...
When it comes to introductory science courses, not all classes are created equal. In introductory physical science courses, such as chemistry and physics, a much larger percentage of students reported taking the course to fill a requirement than did students in introductory life science courses like ...
Fifty-eight percent of students admitted to the University’s class of 2017 indicated on their applications that they intend to concentrate in the physical or life sciences, with engineering, biology and computer science topping the list of intended concentrations, The Herald reported Monday. Hundreds ...
A clinical trial led by Steven Opal, professor of medicine at Alpert Medical School, found that the drug Eritoran was no more effective in treating sepsis than a placebo. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this week. The study involved close to 2,000 ...
Republicans can help propose solutions to climate change that are compatable with their conservative market values, said Bob Inglis, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, at a talk attended by about 30 students and community members in Wilson Hall Tuesday night. Since he lost the Republican ...
Seismic anomaly may be caused by lost tectonic plate University researchers have demonstrated that the Isabella anomaly, a region of unusually high-velocity seismic waves in California, is actually a remnant of a lost tectonic plate known as the Farallon plate. Their research was published in the Proceedings ...
The Obama administration announced a new policy last month to increase public access to federally financed research, including University research funded by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies. The policy requires government-funded agencies that spend more than $100 million a ...
Grouping all Hispanics into one category hides broad demographic differences among different ethnic groups, according to a report published today by the Department of Sociology. The report, entitled “Hispanics in the United States: Not Only Mexicans,” found significant divides in population growth, ...
Stress-induced addiction relapse may be preventable by blocking receptors in the part of the brain responsible for sex, pleasure and motivation, according to a study by researchers at Brown and Penn. Their research was published in the journal Neuron last week. Stress and addiction affect similar pathways ...
A decade after the United States invaded Iraq, researchers estimate 190,000 lives will have been lost and the United States will spend $2.2 trillion by the war’s end, according to new research from the Watson Institute for International Studies. Though the United States officially finished pulling ...
“We’re all post-nuclear creatures,” said Joseph Masco, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, as he stood in front of a world map with flashing circles representing all the nuclear tests and explosions that occurred between 1945 and 1998. He attributed this classification ...
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