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Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, discussed humanitarian efforts and global crises at the 25th Barnes Lecture hosted by the School of Public Health.
Brown researchers developed an “asynchronous wireless network” for microelectronic chips to transmit and receive data from biomedical devices using a system that mimics how neurons in the brain communicate through electrical signals.
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.
122 students at the Warren Alpert Medical School matched into nationwide residency programs, with 23 receiving offers at Brown and 16 at Harvard.
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.
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.
Earlier this month, Dean of Engineering Tejal Desai ’94 was among 114 engineers elected to the National Academy of Engineering’s class of 2024.
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.
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.
On Wednesday, Isaac Kohane ’81 P’25, the inaugural chair of Harvard’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, discussed how artificial intelligence could use big data to expand the field of biomedicine at a Wednesday lecture hosted by the Warren Alpert Medical School.
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