When Paige Stoermer ’16 walked into her first introductory computer science class she had one question: Where were all the women? Of the 132 declared computer science concentrators in the 2014-15 academic year, roughly one-fourth were female. Even fewer in number were underrepresented minorities, ...
Updated on Wednesday Nov. 4 at 11:00pm. Researchers in the Department of Molecular Biology are investigating a protein thought to be associated with degenerative diseases like cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The protein, named “fused in sarcoma,” ...
The efficacy of antidepressants over placebos is a long-standing question in the practice of psychiatry. This question, and the narrowing gap in success rates between antidepressants and placebos prescribed for depressed patients, were explored in an article co-authored by Professor of Clinical Psychiatry ...
The Providence-based DNA sequencing company Nabsys is shutting its doors after nearly eight years in operation. Nabsys was formed in 2007 as a merger between two research projects started by University scientists. The company’s mission was to improve genome mapping and analysis using “strategic ...
Hitting baby dolls with rocks might not sound like something worthy of course credit, but for some undergraduate classes it might be. As students continue pairing down their course lists, many of those who decide to take courses in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences will ...
Brown community members are using crowdsourced funding websites to raise money for personal causes, nonprofit organizations and now scientific research, thanks to experiment.com — the Kickstarter of the academic world. As an alternative to applying for research grants, some Brown community members ...
Cross one hand over the other. Interlace the fingers from your top hand onto your palm. Set your shoulders and elbows straight, and push. These are the basic steps that comprise hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, an American Heart Association recognized method of CPR. Brown Emergency Medical ...
The Garibaldi Panorama is a 273-foot, double-sided watercolor painting that depicts the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general and politician. The painting, which is more than four feet tall and housed on an enormous scroll, is a relic of a once-popular art form called the moving panorama — ...
Though Ebola has dominated mainstream media attention recently, the total number of infectious disease outbreaks worldwide has been climbing since 1980, according to a new study published by Brown researchers in the current issue of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Though the rate of ...
“Science is driven by human beings and their strengths and weaknesses,” renowned scientist Erling Norrby told a nearly full Sidney Frank 220 Friday afternoon. Norrby, a virologist who has served on the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, and is now Lord Chamberlain in Waiting at the Royal ...
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