Three hundred sixty-six students pack into Salomon 101 two days a week to hear who Marcy Huang ’16 calls “the most engaging lecturer” she’s ever had. But that lecturer — Fiery Cushman, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, who has taught CLPS0700: “Social ...
Professor honored for research on biology of autism Eric Morrow, assistant professor of biology, psychiatry and human behavior, has received the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s A.E. Bennett Research Award for his work on the biological processes behind autism, according to a University press release. Morrow’s ...
Incarceration is a vicious cycle analogous to a fly getting stuck to flypaper, said Josiah Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology and lead author of a recent paper on prisoner health. One brush with prison, and it becomes hard to get unstuck, he said, noting the high rate of repeat incarceration ...
American policymakers have a potent new tool to combat the spread of HIV. It’s not a vaccine or a miracle cure, but instead a newfound way to implement the strategies already known to work. A team of epidemiologists, including University researchers, published a paper this month in the journal Health ...
Breaking down the barriers that women face in science, technology, engineering and math fields “has to be a movement,” said Jean King, professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, as part of a panel on women in STEM fields Tuesday evening. The panel discussion, entitled ...
Women with bipolar disorder have more difficulties during and after childbirth than do women with other psychiatric disorders, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. In the study, Cynthia Battle, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and her co-authors, ...
From biology to physics, robotics to design, Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences to Prince Engineering Laboratory, the sciences at Brown threw open their doors this weekend and welcomed visitors of all ages, backgrounds and interests into the vast array of experiences that science at Brown offers. With ...
A recent calibration of the Large Underground Xenon shows that researchers have come one step closer to detecting the elusive dark matter particle, according to results presented by a Brown graduate student Feb. 19 at the Lake Louise Winter Institute in Alberta, Canada. Located a mile underground in ...
When children engage certain attentional mechanisms, their IQ scores no longer predict how well they remember what they have seen, according to a new study by University researchers published online this month in the journal Cognition. This finding emerged from the work of researchers in the Department ...
Researchers determine binding structure of PP1 New research offers predictions for how protein phosphatase 1 — a protein necessary for turning on and off a wide range of biological processes — binds to 43 of its approximately 200 suspected targets. The predictions were derived from structures ...
Every Wednesday, 14 first-years head to a kitchen to conduct “edible experiments” that help them see how chemistry applies to cooking. The lab is part of a new first-year seminar, CHEM 0080F: “Kitchen Chemistry,” taught by Associate Professor of Chemistry Sarah Delaney. Potatoes ‘are ...
Movies, television and news media perpetuate several unfounded myths about filicide — the killing of a child by a parent — said Tim Mariano, a third-year psychiatry resident at Alpert Medical School. Contrary to popular belief, stepchildren and biological children are at equal risk of being victims ...
Mingling over tea and cookies quickly turned into heated debate over the nature of neuroscience’s role in explaining aesthetic experience on Saturday, as a group of experts spoke at a day-long conference, “Neuroscience, Cognition, and the Arts.” The conference, organized by English Professor ...
With a new professor, different textbook and an unusually high average on the first midterm, the material of the infamous weed-out course CHEM0350: “Organic Chemistry” underwent marked changes this year. Paul Williard P’11, professor of chemistry, currently teaches one section of the class, which ...
“We are here to solve all of your communication woes,” said Annie Sherman Luke, managing editor for Newport Life Magazine, who spoke about how researchers can improve their communication skills Tuesday in the Science Center. The event kicked off a series of professional development programs called ...
Study explores weight loss motivation game A recent study of an online weight loss game found the site to be an effective weight loss tool, according to a Lifespan press release. DietBet, a gaming website designed to motivate users to lose weight, has players bet money on their own weight loss. Players ...
This April, the senior thesis-turned-research paper of Emily Lamb ’11 — which investigates barnacle behavior as influenced by temperature — will be published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. Lamb began her research several years ago when she studied abroad in Chile and ...
“Science can be a subject of beautiful writing, just like description of a landscape or memories of a love affair,” said Alan Lightman to nearly 100 students and faculty members Tuesday night. Community members filled a meeting room on the second floor of Brown/RISD Hillel to listen to him speak ...
When she is not pole vaulting for the track and field team or overseeing the Women’s Peer Counselor program at Brown, Hanna McPhee ’14 is doing what many other seniors are doing — completing her thesis. The only difference for McPhee is that when she encounters problems, she doesn’t have a department ...
In a world in which people suffer from information overload, humans need to be able to mentally sift through data and decide what is relevant. Working memory, the capacity people have to retain information over short periods of time, provides the key to sorting through the heaps of mental data. University ...
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