Researchers propose aberrant genes as cure for ALS After six years studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease, a team of five University faculty members received a $1.8 million research grant from the ALS Finding a Cure Foundation this fall. They will use this grant ...
Gabriel Taubin, a professor at the School of Engineering, and Daniel Moreno GS, a fifth-year computer engineering PhD student, recently designed an algorithm allowing ordinary smart phones and digital cameras to become 3D scanners. The idea came to them when they started questioning if it was possible ...
Rhode Island College hosted the 2016 Trans* Health Conference Jan. 30, offering presentations throughout the day to over 350 physicians, nurses, mental health care providers, medical students and trans* attendees. Within the doctor’s office and in greater society, people who are trans* — a term ...
Power of thumb-sized chameleons The smaller the chameleon, the more powerful its tongue, wrote Christopher Anderson, postdoctoral research associate in ecology and evolutionary biology, in the journal Scientific Reports, according to a University press release. While all chameleon species have impressively ...
With opioid and other substance abuses creating public health emergencies state- and nation-wide, the University and Rhode Island Hospital have received grants from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop and implement curricula in early substance abuse interventions, ...
A University study released earlier this month suggests that an anti-epilepsy drug is effective in reducing the amount of marijuana smoked by young adults, but not necessarily the frequency of smoking. Yet some scientists doubt the validity of the results, in part because half of the study’s medicated ...
The YURT Ultimate Reality Theater was officially unveiled last semester, and after six months of use, the possibilities for the facility seem limitless, said David Laidlaw, professor of computer science and principle investigator for the YURT. The virtual reality theater — which has been called the ...
The Herald’s fall poll found that 14.7 percent of students do not exercise, 39.5 percent exercise for one to three hours per week and 28.1 percent exercise for four to seven hours per week. Fewer students exercised more than that, with 7.2 percent exercising for eight to 10 hours per week, 3 percent ...
“If you have some kind of talent, do it. Whatever it is,” said Fred Jackson, wheeling around a high-backed chair in his greenhouse office on the top floor of the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching. “Get into it. You know what I mean?” Jackson, for his part, is into everything. ...
A dozen students and two faculty members from the University’s Climate and Development Lab are attending the Paris Climate Change Conference as part of the course ENVS 1575: “Engaged Climate Policy at the U.N. Climate Change Talks.” The two-week conference, which began Monday, seeks to create ...
Enrollment in the University’s master’s programs has increased by 112 percent since fall 2007, while enrollment in doctoral programs has increased by only 5 percent. These numbers likely reflect the efforts made by President Christina Paxson P’19 and former President Ruth Simmons to expand master’s ...
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, ...
About 17 percent of undergraduate students smoke cigarettes or e-cigarettes, according to a Herald poll conducted Oct. 28-29. The poll found that 9.7 percent of students smoke rarely, 3.7 percent smoke several times per month, 2.1 percent smoke several times per week and 1.9 percent smoke at least daily. Brown’s ...
Through practice and play, John Oberlin GS is working to help robots learn how to pick up any number of household objects. Oberlin, a PhD candidate in computer science, is collaborating with his adviser, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Stefanie Tellex. The duo aims to have their ...
The red planet made headlines in October after NASA announced evidence confirming the existence of flowing liquid water on Mars. University researchers in the department of earth, environmental and planetary sciences studying Mars have also had a busy month. Earlier this month, a paper was published ...
The Department of Computer Science announced plans last week to create a $10 million endowment in order to provide funding for undergraduate teaching assistants in all computer science courses. As of press time, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Endowment had raised $5,588,532. Undergrad teaching ...
Over the last five years, the number of computer science degrees awarded has risen by over 200 percent, increasing from 40 in 2011 to 100 last spring. For some computer science concentrators, learning is not limited to the classroom, as they apply their skills to the development of Android and iOS apps. ...
The pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli made headlines this summer when he raised the price of a generic drug by over 5,000 percent. Led by Clay Wiske MD ’16, a team of researchers presented strategies to prevent such price spikes and increase competition in the markets for generic drugs in the ...
About 45 high school students visiting Brown on Saturday walked on the surface of Mars, landed in a crater and suddenly found themselves on the surface of the moon. The students never left the Yurt Ultimate Reality Theatre, where they were able to experience these places as Johannes Novotny GS switched ...
Examining misconceptions about appendicitis Researchers from the Hasbro Children’s Hospital surveyed children suspected to have appendicitis and their parents to examine their perceptions of the condition. An article recounting their findings was published online Nov. 3 in the Journal of Pediatric ...
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