The Brown Outing Club and Astronomy Club are organizing a 50-student trip to New York to view the 2024 solar eclipse occurring on April 8. The groups will choose around 10 students from a lottery to join the trip.
In 2020, Juan Alfonzo, a professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, began a project out of “pure COVID boredom.”
Young minds from the Providence community came to Brown this Saturday for interactive lessons about neuroscience at the annual Brown Brain Fair. Organized and hosted by student group Brown Brain Bee and the Department of Neuroscience, the fair is a public event for community members of all ages to learn ...
On Jan. 31, the Attorney General of North Carolina released internal documents of e-cigarette company Juul Labs revealing the company spent “significant sums” of money on political donations, think tanks and Washington lobbyists, all made public in a 2021 settlement.
Eric Suuberg, a professor of engineering and technology entrepreneurship, received the 2024 Distinguished Researcher Award from the Energy and Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society.
With the Fulbright Award’s emphasis on cultural exchange and impact, many Fulbright scholars decide to teach English or pursue work in the humanities. But the scholarship has also created opportunities for Brown alums to conduct STEM research abroad.
Driving down Route 195 to Providence, you’re sure to notice banners and billboards advertising marijuana and places to find it. This ubiquity is rare for a drug considered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”
Since May 2020, the Pandemic Journaling Project has been collecting journal entries, audio samples and photographs from participants across the globe about life during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Feb. 15, Katherine Mason and Sarah Willen, associate professors of anthropology at Brown and the University ...
On Tuesday, geologist Ross Stein ’75 presented a workshop for aspiring researchers on identifying scientific fraud. The talk also focused on the complexities and risks of reporting such fraud to relevant authorities.
Reed Tuckson joined Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, for a public conversation in honor of Black History Month on Monday afternoon, covering his career path and today’s pressing public health threats.
Earlier this month, Dean of Engineering Tejal Desai ’94 was among 114 engineers elected to the National Academy of Engineering’s class of 2024.
In January, Elon Musk announced via X that his company, Neuralink, successfully implanted its brain-user interface device into a human subject for the first time.
Earlier this month, the Providence City Council unanimously approved the nation’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center. The center is the subject of a School of Public Health and New York University Langone Health study examining the efficacy of OPCs in preventing overdose, The Herald ...
This week, Brown held its fifth-ever Love Data Week, featuring presentations on research data management and data services delivered by researchers, professors and industry professionals, according to the event’s website.
Multiple Brown community members contributed to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a quadrennial report released Nov. 14 that synthesizes interdisciplinary research on topics including energy and air quality, community and national responses to climate change and the wide-ranging impacts of global ...
Professor of Surgery Alfred Ayala received the Society for Leukocyte Biology’s 2024 Legacy Keynote Lecture Award, the highest recognition from the society, according to a Jan. 9 University press release.
The Pandemic Center, formed as part of the School of Public Health in 2022, inaugurated its Washington D.C. office Jan. 29 as part of a larger initiative to connect with policymakers and broader community stakeholders.
Brown researchers Alberto Saal, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and Kim Cobb, director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, were both named to the 2023 class of fellows by the American Geophysical Union, a scientific organization.
Brown’s American Physician-Scientist Association chapter held its second-ever annual conference at the Warren Alpert Medical School Saturday. The event consisted of speeches, presentations of student research and panels about the diverse career paths of physician-scientists.
The American Medical Women’s Association — an organization “dedicated to advancing women in medicine and improving women’s health,” according to its website — hosted its Northeast Regional Conference at the Warren Alpert Medical School last Saturday. Attendees heard from women in medical ...
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