Even before most students had returned to campus following winter break, Metcalf Auditorium filled last Thursday and Friday as students and faculty attended “Beyond Deep Learning,” a workshop designed to showcase interdisciplinary perspectives on artificial intelligence and its future. Artificial ...
The Earth is a dynamic system, constantly in motion both above and below its surface. The movement of layers below the surface that compose the Earth’s mantle influence the movement of several rigid plates on the surface. This churning mixes different materials within the mantle, generating unique ...
In an effort to combat the growing international water crisis, 54 scholars and scientists from across the globe recently signed the Geneva Actions on Human Water Security, a document backed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that stipulates clean water access as ...
Not even the rain could keep a crowd of over 1,500 “nerds” away from Saturday’s March for Science Rhode Island at the State House, noted J. Timmons Roberts, a professor of environmental studies and speaker at the march. In light of President Trump’s proposed policies that would threaten scientific ...
Six successful female scientists delivered a series of public lectures on their work in various fields at Thursday’s day-long event “Inspiring Women in Science 2017,” which explored research ranging from plate tectonics to polar ice mechanics. Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and ...
Even simple communication is a constant struggle for paralyzed patients, but a collaborative project from BrainGate neurotechnology researchers, which included scientists from Brown, recently found a way for these patients to type at the fastest speeds achieved yet. Imagined actions, such as moving ...
College and high school students, general data enthusiasts and hackers alike came together this weekend to learn and work overnight in the University’s 2017 Datathon. A datathon is “a hackathon with datasets,” said Tanay Padhi ’17, one of the head organizers of the event. “We want to get ...
A building collapses and victims are stuck beneath rubble. A rescue team moves debris as quickly as possible but struggles to find people in the chaos. The team launches a robot that can fly through the narrow spaces and nimbly maneuver through the rubble. With the robot’s help, it locates people ...
As part of the “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse” series, Professor of Biology Ken Miller ’70 examined science denial Thursday, discussing the scientific facts and theories people often disagree with despite overwhelming supporting evidence, such as climate change, ...
R. Jacob Vogelstein ’00 works at the intersection of United States intelligence and neuroscience and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in January. The award is the highest honor offered by the U.S. Government for science and engineering professionals in the early ...
An analysis of past temperatures on Mount Kenya suggests that current climate models used to study climate change may not be as accurate as previously thought, according to a paper published in January by University researchers in the journal Science Advances. By comparing lake sediment cores from Lake ...
When Alison Field, director of the Centers for Epidemiology and Environmental Health and chair of epidemiology, began working on the Growing Up Today Study in 1996, almost 17,000 children aged 9 to 14 enrolled. But as the study, which looks at the effects of diet and exercise on weight changes throughout ...
Science is at war. There’s no other way to say it — between the rogue Twitter accounts of NASA and the National Park Service and the planned March for Science on Earth Day, recent political events have incensed scientists across the nation. President Donald Trump’s administration has yet to hire ...
In vitro gametogenesis — a multi-step process that could be used to make embryos from normal cells — has recently raised a number of ethical concerns from researchers in the field. IVG has the potential to benefit many people who seek to have children but are unable to do so, and the process could ...
Richard Park ’16 and Bella Okiddy GS are spearheading a biotech startup that aims to improve rape kit testing for victims of sexual assault. The pair received funding from the Swearer Center for Public Service’s Embark Post-Graduate Fellowship, a one-year stipend to pursue altruistic business ventures, ...
Professor of Neuroscience Diane Lipscombe has been named the executive director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, according to a community-wide email from Provost Richard Locke P’17 April 5. Since Jan. 5, 2015 Lipscombe has served as interim director of the institute where she has “made ...
If science, technology, engineering and mathematics suffer from a deficit of interest, Brown’s Brain Fair in Sayles Hall proved otherwise. The March 19 event was attended by over 500 people ranging from faculty members to local children — many of whom sported purple and pink neurons painted on their ...
“One of my goals throughout my whole life (has been) to literally walk on another planet,” said Connor Lynch ’17. “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Rather than a pipe dream, Lynch’s aspirations of becoming an astronaut are not so distant from reality. Lynch was recently accepted ...
Researchers from Rhode Island Hospital have found a link between cognitive impairment and epilepsy, according to a study published in the journal Epilepsy and Behavior this month. While epilepsy itself is not always neurodegenerative, the study revealed that those with epilepsy exhibit “much higher ...
This article is the second in an ongoing series, Science at the Cinema, that explores research and researchers portrayed in film. “Interstellar,” the story of a perilous space journey, is a must-see film for its grand visual effects and far out ideas that bend space, time and the filmgoer’s mind. The ...
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