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U. researchers study greenhouse gases in ice as part of national effort

By Kathleen Meininger | October 12

In an effort to better understand Earth’s climate history, University researchers have joined a nationwide collaborative effort to discover Antarctica’s oldest ice.

Brandon Li GS and Anderson Addo ’23 are two of Emit’s developers. Li calls Emit a “social-app” in order to distance the app from the exclusivity associated with conventional social media.

Emit, social app founded by student entrepreneurs, aims to expand connections

By Casey Chan | September 22

Two student co-founders have created and released Emit, a social media app created to help users find social events through user-released “flares,” alerting others of new and nearby events.

Gumus GS: When PhD dreams turn into nightmares: bad mentoring edition

By Selahaddin Gumus | September 17

Nightmares surrounding STEM PhDs are plentiful — classic examples are the student who spends 14 hours a day in the lab, the coworker who sabotages others’ experiments and the newly graduated student who stares down the barrel of two consecutive postdoctoral positions because they are unprepared ...

Female professors in STEM reflect on experiences in their fields

By Jack Walker | March 22

Only 27 percent of workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the United States are women, despite women comprising 48 percent of our nation’s workforce, according to a 2019 study. Breaking this down even further, subdivisions within STEM including engineering and computer science ...

Celebrating diversity in STEM and business: Brown clubs make an impact

By Ishitaa Gupta | February 24

Several student organizations at Brown, which focus on supporting students of color in STEM and business fields, have been working to improve representation in academic and professional spaces and foster inclusive communities on campus. Mosaic+ “focuses on creating … a community for underrepresented ...

Schmidt '21: STEM students can still find research opportunities during the pandemic

By Rachael Schmidt | September 21

COVID-19 has taken a toll on the healthcare system, the job market and the simple ability to conduct activities that once took place in person. This disruption also extends to summer internships and other professional development opportunities for students that went remote or were canceled altogether, ...

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Resuming Research Guidance details students’ return to the lab bench as Brown offers remote research opportunities

By Emilija Sagaityte | September 13

After most University labs slipped into a lull in March following the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduates are anxious to partake in hands-on research investigations once again. But with a pandemic still pushing onward, popping into a laboratory at one’s whim is no longer feasible. Resuming ...

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Engineering professor Christopher Rose assumes appointment as Associate Provost for STEM Initiatives

By Rahma Ibrahim | September 8

Professor of Engineering Christopher Rose was appointed associate provost for STEM initiatives effective July 1, according to a Today@Brown announcement made by Provost Richard Locke P’18 July 21. In his new role, Rose will help grow the share of faculty who have been historically underrepresented ...

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Two Brown assistant professors receive $75,000 grant for up-and-coming research

By Tyler Jacobson | March 6

Two University assistant professors received one of the most prestigious awards for an early-career researcher in science, mathematics or economics when they were named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows last month. As part of the fellowship, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ou Chen and Assistant Professor ...

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Ren '23: Why not take a math class?

By Johnny Ren | February 19

I was chatting with a friend the other day when I accidentally unearthed a source of deep psychological trauma — I asked her how math class was going. All the joy left her face in an instant, replaced with a curious mix of fear, panic and anger. Though this story is anecdotal, it reflects a rather ...

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Schmidt '21: Professors should stop scheduling exams at night

By Rachael Schmidt | October 10

Nothing is worse than a night exam. Many classes, especially large lectures in STEM fields, schedule exams late in the evening. At their worst, these exams can span from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. They may seem to be a necessary evil, since the regular class time is often not long enough for an exam, and the ...

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Schmidt '21: Branch-out, don’t STEM-out

By Rachael Schmidt | March 8

We don’t have all the answers when we first get to college. For most students who intend to concentrate in STEM fields, the difficulty level of academics increases exponentially from high school to college. For many first-years, this is the first time in their lives living by themselves, exposed to ...

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Four University professors receive Sloan Foundation fellowship

By Corrine Bai | February 28

Four of the University’s assistant professors have received the Sloan Foundation fellowship to further their research in STEM or related fields. Fellowship recipients, who must hold a PhD equivalent, each received $70,000 to be used on their research in a two year period. The fellowship is one of ...

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Meszaros GS: Breaking down the art, STEM divide

By E.L. Meszaros | February 25

Universities function as conduits for insular communities — your cohort, the other people in your concentration, your housemates and others. The further you commit to one course of study and the deeper you dive into a particular field, the more insulated these communities can become. While heavy specialization ...

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Schmidt '21: Bridging the research gap for STEM students

By Rachael Schmidt | December 7

If you are a STEM concentrator at Brown, research is key. The sooner an undergraduate gets into research, the better and more competitive their resume will be. To students either deciding sophomore spring they want to concentrate in STEM without any prior research experience, or students who come from ...

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GirlsGetMath engages local high school students

By Cate Ryan | September 6

During the second week of August, the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics hosted GirlsGetMath@ICERM, a week-long day camp for girls in the Providence area entering 10th or 11th grade. The program started in 2014 under then-director of ICERM Jill Pipher, the University’s ...

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Faculty, students attend SACNAS national conference

By Anuva Goel | October 30

With a focus on demographic disparities in STEM fields, several University faculty members and students spent Oct. 19 to 21 at the 2017 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science conference in Salt Lake City. They joined a community of around 3,000 scholars, tied together ...

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Panel discusses diversity in STEM fields

By Stephanie Zhang | February 17

“How can you create black scientists if there’s no black scientific community?” asked William Massey, professor of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton, during this week’s “Celebrating Excellence in Science” event. Hosted by the Science Center, this two-day lecture ...

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Liang '19: STEM courseloads betray the open curriculum

By Mark Liang | September 27

“Shakespeare is stupid.” This came out of the mouth of a good friend of mine, an applied math concentrator, over lunch one day. Having just survived shopping period, everyone at the table was comparing class schedules. Between the humanities and science, technology, engineering and math concentrators, ...

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Papendorp '17: Unpaid research excludes low-income students

By Carin Papendorp | September 16

According to the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, though the percentage of Brown students from historically underrepresented groups has increased over 4 percent since 2004, the percent of HUG science, technology, engineering and math concentrators has been about constant. Though low-income undergraduates ...