With seven days of temperatures over 70 degrees Fahrenheit in Providence so far, this November has broken multiple high-temperature records, making it the warmest in Providence since the start of continuous weather data collection in 1904. According to experts, these unusually high temperatures are ...
Former Florida State Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, professor of the practice of health services, policy and practice at the School of Public Health, discussed pandemic preparedness and his experience as a public health leader on Wednesday at a Q&A event hosted by the Ivy League+ Pre-health ...
The University has selected architects from Deborah Berke Partners, a New York City-based architecture and interior design firm, and Ballinger, an engineering and architecture practice headquartered in Philadelphia, to design the new integrated life sciences building in Providence’s Jewelry District, ...
“Are you procrastinating on your midterms and looking for the perfect little silly distraction?” begins an Oct. 20 Instagram post from the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences. The department is holding a naming competition on social media for two mass spectrometers, asking ...
Rhode Island Medical Navigator Partnership, a program created by Warren Alpert Medical School students, partnered with House of Hope, a Rhode Island-based organization aimed at supporting individuals experiencing homelessness, to host the annual Burnside Park Health Fair Oct. 15. The ...
The Brown Dog Lab has studied dog cognition and behavior since its founding in 2020. By recruiting canine research participants around Providence, the lab seeks to understand how dogs respond to their environment and human actions, according to Principal Investigator Daphna Buchsbaum ’02, assistant ...
For the first time, researchers have detected seismic waves from four impacts — the collision of astronomical objects — on the surface of Mars. They published their findings in a Nature Geoscience paper co-authored by Ingrid Daubar, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary ...
The Office of Biology Undergraduate Education will host its inaugural BioWeek from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 — a series of events that celebrate the biology community on campus and engage the student body in biology-related activities.
Investigators published a review article earlier this month that highlights some of the positive effects of invasive species on human society and nature and emphasizes the need for more ...
A team that includes Brown researchers was awarded with a $15 million grant from the National Institute ...
In July, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies selected four cryptography algorithms as national standards for public key security in order to prepare for an era of quantum computers, which uses quantum physics for more powerful computing and will compromise the security of current ...
Megan Ranney MPH ’10, academic dean of the School of Public Health, practicing emergency medicine physician and professor of emergency medicine, behavioral and social sciences, and health services, policy and practice, was one of 100 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine’s class ...
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, professor of computer science and data science and deputy director of the Data Science Initiative, recently ended a 15-month appointment as advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, during which he helped formulate policies to ensure ethical use ...
When David Chu ’24, Jialing Zhou ’24, Alyssa Loo ’24, Qinan Yu ’24 and Adrien Chavarot ’25 competed last February in their first hackathon — Hack@Brown — they did not expect much to come from it.
On Ada Lovelace Day — a day to celebrate women in STEM fields — Maia Weinstock ’99, discussed her latest book, “Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus,” elaborating on the life and work of the titular figure before a book signing and reception at the ...
The Brown Healthcare Advancement Journal, a new undergraduate publication covering firms and organizations improving the U.S. healthcare system, is set to publish its first issue this semester.
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 ...
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