The University is preparing to host six clinics with bivalent COVID-19 boosters and flu vaccines on campus over the course of this month, according to Vanessa Britto MSc’96, associate vice president for health and wellness.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human services declared monkeypox, a potentially serious viral illness that belongs to the orthopoxvirus family and spreads through skin-to-skin contact, a public health emergency on Aug. 4. As of Oct. 3, there have been 26,049 total confirmed monkeypox/orthopox ...
Assistant Professor of Physics Jonathan Pober was recently awarded NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics to advance his work on a groundbreaking lunar telescope. ...
When you come back from an injury or surgery, you have a few options: resting the area, avoiding movements that cause pain or taking certain medications to ease discomfort. But what happens when you’re in pain for months — even years — after the area has healed? Researchers at ...
With a $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant, researchers from Brown and other universities across the country will study the “evolution of aging differences between females and males,” according to an Aug. 1 NSF award description.
When several hospitalists at Miriam Hospital wanted to publish a case report on their findings from treating patients with COVID-19, they recognized a shortage of journals dedicated to hospital medicine. So they created their own.
It is well known that light has a significant effect on mood: “If you’re looking for a new apartment, you go for the one with the nice big windows and not the basement with only artificial light,” Professor of Neuroscience David Berson said.
A team of University researchers is testing the use of noninvasive low-intensity ultrasound to treat mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety.
At the Providence Area Aging Research Forum this Tuesday, researchers presented two papers — one on pulmonary fibrosis and one on Alzheimer’s disease, which are the sixth and seventh biggest causes of death in the U.S. respectively.
Allan Tunkel was named the new health careers advisor expert in residence for the 2022-23 academic year, filling a vacancy left by the Aug. 3 departure of George Vassilev, former associate dean of the college for pre-professional advising.
The School of Public Health hosted its 2022 State of the School Address at Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Thursday. The event featured remarks from Provost Richard Locke P’18, Interim Dean of the SPH Ronald Aubert and Academic Dean Megan Ranney MPH’10, followed by a SPH faculty panel discussion about ...
This summer, students who received the Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards — a University program launched in 1986 — worked with faculty on research collaborations and teaching projects for 10 to 12 weeks, according to the UTRA website.
Bolden Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops therapeutics to promote the birth of new neurons in the adult brain for potential treatment of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. The company arose from a collaboration between the Fallon Lab and the Webb Lab and works ...
The Graduate School hosted an event entitled “Research Matters” Thursday evening in which 12 graduate students presented their research at Grant Recital Hall. The speakers showcased their research in their respective fields — ranging ...
A study published this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology led by University researchers used 3D imaging to visualize how boa constrictors adjust the ...
Since the 1990s, opioid deaths have skyrocketed, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From April 2020 to April 2021, 75,673 Americans died of opioid overdoses. The opioid crisis has long been associated with white Americans in parts of the country undergoing ...
Recruited on the promise of complementary pizza and t-shirts, multiple groups of 20 research participants paced Sayles Hall as part of a new study from University researchers modeling flocking behavior in humans. The study, published ...
AtomICs, a data storage and computing startup led by University researchers, won the first place prize of $25,000 at the 2022 Brown Venture Prize competition, The Herald previously reported. AtomICs is the first PhD student and faculty team to win a Brown Venture Prize and is led by Dana Biechele-Speziale ...
NASA astrophysicist and citizen science officer Marc Kuchner facilitated a seminar Tuesday in Barus and Holley on the growing importance of “citizen science” — an uncoordinated collection of independent volunteers around the world — in advancing the discovery of exoplanets and planet formation. ...
The School of Public Health hosted its annual Public Health Research Day Tuesday in Alumnae Hall. Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral participants as well as representatives from the Rhode Island Department of Health presented 73 different posters showcasing their work in the field of public health. ...
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