Brain blast A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience and co-authored by Dima Amso, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, found that infants use the prefrontal cortex in learning, according to a University press release. Researchers previously thought that the ...
Alexander Blum ’16, a former Herald metro editor, became the first Brown student to be recognized by the international academic program the Undergraduate Awards, winning honors in the United States and Canada region. Blum won in the earth and environmental sciences category for his paper “Rational ...
Formaldehyde, a known toxicant and carcinogen, is more harmful than previously believed, according to a study co-authored by Anatoly Zhitkovich, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School. The study, published Sept. 14 in the American Journal of Pathology, suggests ...
J. Michael Kosterlitz, professor of physics, was named a winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday morning. Kosterlitz shares his half of the prize with Frederick Haldane, professor of physics at Princeton. The other half of the prize was awarded to David Thouless, professor of physics at the ...
A paper published this summer by University researchers concluded that, in Mali, price is a more significant barrier to healthcare than a lack of information. Researchers offered both subsidies and informational health worker visits to a population of 1,544 Malian children and found that the former ...
The National Institutes of Health’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program awarded grants last week to projects across the United States, three of which involve the work of Brown faculty members. ECHO projects use data on a group of subjects over an extended period of time to analyze ...
Lauren Redniss ’96 was sitting in her parents’ kitchen with her son when she received a call from an unknown number. Assuming it was an election survey, she picked up. “That’s not what it was,” she said. It was a call notifying her that she had won a MacArthur Fellowship — $625,000 to ...
The new School of Engineering building — whose construction is slated to be done in January 2018 — is currently just over halfway finished with construction, said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president of facilities management. By the end of November, the building will be watertight and ready for interior ...
Chief Executive Officer of HMSolution Margaret Lengerich SCMIM’13 was awarded $50,000 Sept. 12 by the Slater Technology Fund for her water purification technology company HMSolution, a company she built out of the research she did while a graduate student in the Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship ...
Katherine Freese, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, described the state of research on dark matter in her lecture “The Dark Side of the Universe” Friday evening. She outlined the history of scientific inquiry into dark matter, starting with Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...
Students animatedly discussed ideas in lecture halls, whiteboards overflowed with colorful ink, and groups practiced their product pitches. It wasn’t just an ordinary day at the Warren Alpert Medical School — it was the inaugural run of Hack Health. Hack Health is a hackathon with a mission to “improve ...
When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — via the Internet, no less. But such has been the journey of the Grolier Codex, a Maya astrological ...
The National Science Foundation awarded a four-year grant of $6 million to 14 researchers Aug. 22 for research into the neuroscience of attention. The scientists include three professors from the University: David Sheinberg, professor of neuroscience and director of the neuroscience graduate program; ...
A University study published online Aug. 30 revealed a surprising discovery: a new binding formation used uniquely by two proteins during the final stages of cell division. The discovery could have implications for cancer treatment, as the proteins identified in the study play a role in cell division ...
Among metaphors, the Internet as a cloud is especially satisfying: It captures the incomprehensible mass of the globe’s data in one fell, simple, ethereal swoop. In 2006, Google’s Eric Schmidt introduced the metaphor, claiming the world of data would soon exist “in a cloud somewhere.” Today, ...
Somewhere out there — buried under ice in our solar system, waiting on a deep-Milky Way exoplanet, on radiation en route from the Great Beyond — lies the answer to the question, “Are we alone?” Jill Tarter, chair of Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Research at the SETI Institute in ...
Richard Park ’16 and Bella Okiddy GS are spearheading a biotech startup that aims to improve rape kit testing for victims of sexual assault. The pair received funding from the Swearer Center for Public Service’s Embark Post-Graduate Fellowship, a one-year stipend to pursue altruistic business ventures, ...
University researchers recently published a paper that revealed previously unknown links between the usage of cocaine in conjunction with alcohol and increased suicide risk. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Sarah Arias led the research. Published in the scientific journal “Crisis,” ...
In December 2015, Visiting Scholar in Physics Stephon Alexander PhD’00 was arrested by the Coventry and West Greenwich Police for his involvement in a prostitution sting. Alexander was one of seven men charged with the procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, and his faculty appointment to the University ...
In contrast to previous trends, the 2016 election cycle has seen online polling used more often than traditional telephone polls. But while online polling is cheaper than telephone polling and has produced more reliable results in certain recent contests, its methods have drawn skepticism from polling ...
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