Reed Tuckson joined Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, for a public conversation in honor of Black History Month on Monday afternoon, covering his career path and today’s pressing public health threats.
Earlier this month, Dean of Engineering Tejal Desai ’94 was among 114 engineers elected to the National Academy of Engineering’s class of 2024.
In January, Elon Musk announced via X that his company, Neuralink, successfully implanted its brain-user interface device into a human subject for the first time.
Earlier this month, the Providence City Council unanimously approved the nation’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center. The center is the subject of a School of Public Health and New York University Langone Health study examining the efficacy of OPCs in preventing overdose, The Herald ...
This week, Brown held its fifth-ever Love Data Week, featuring presentations on research data management and data services delivered by researchers, professors and industry professionals, according to the event’s website.
Multiple Brown community members contributed to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a quadrennial report released Nov. 14 that synthesizes interdisciplinary research on topics including energy and air quality, community and national responses to climate change and the wide-ranging impacts of global ...
Professor of Surgery Alfred Ayala received the Society for Leukocyte Biology’s 2024 Legacy Keynote Lecture Award, the highest recognition from the society, according to a Jan. 9 University press release.
The Pandemic Center, formed as part of the School of Public Health in 2022, inaugurated its Washington D.C. office Jan. 29 as part of a larger initiative to connect with policymakers and broader community stakeholders.
Brown researchers Alberto Saal, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and Kim Cobb, director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, were both named to the 2023 class of fellows by the American Geophysical Union, a scientific organization.
Brown’s American Physician-Scientist Association chapter held its second-ever annual conference at the Warren Alpert Medical School Saturday. The event consisted of speeches, presentations of student research and panels about the diverse career paths of physician-scientists.
The American Medical Women’s Association — an organization “dedicated to advancing women in medicine and improving women’s health,” according to its website — hosted its Northeast Regional Conference at the Warren Alpert Medical School last Saturday. Attendees heard from women in medical ...
On Wednesday, Isaac Kohane ’81 P’25, the inaugural chair of Harvard’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, discussed how artificial intelligence could use big data to expand the field of biomedicine at a Wednesday lecture hosted by the Warren Alpert Medical School.
A new paper in the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics from a University researcher and two University alumni suggests that exploring variability within climate trends is important for marine ecology projections.
A virtual panel discussion Monday discussed the adversities women face in medicine.
Artists from the Brown Arts Institute launched the Moon Design Challenge, encouraging students to repurpose lunar film negatives sourced at the Creative Reuse Center of Rhode Island.
University researchers identify reduced verbal agitation, increased pleasure in dementia patients listening to curated music selections
Until recently, researchers believed only one planet in our solar system had plate tectonics: Earth. But in a recent study, Brown University researchers used atmospheric modeling to show that Venus, much of whose geological history is a mystery, once had plate tectonics — the shifting of plates composing ...
This fall, the Brown University Herbarium welcomed back a piece of the University’s history: mushrooms pressed onto paper.
The Herald’s fall poll shows that approximately one-third of students are concentrating in the physical sciences.
Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine Ramu Kharel is working to pay for and distribute sanitation kits following a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Nepal.
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