J. Timmons Roberts, professor of environmental studies and sociology, will travel to Japan this July to receive the 2014 Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology. Given out once every four years, the award is presented by a branch of the International ...
Many prisoners do not receive adequate health care upon their release, a problem that was the focal point of an event entitled “Incarceration, Disparities and Health in America in the Age of Health Care Reform” held Friday in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The symposium ...
Practitioners of Buddhist meditation have reported seeing globes, jewels and little stars during meditation-induced light experiences. The neurobiological explanation for these visions was the subject of a recent study led by Willoughby Britton, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, ...
A joint team of researchers from Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully killed bacteria resistant to typical antibiotics by increasing the potency of a class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides, or ADEPs. Their study was published Jan. 14 in the Journal of the American ...
A recent study co-led by Professor of Neurology Stephen Salloway found that bapineuzumab, a drug previously thought to slow the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, causes no improvement in patients’ memories or daily functioning. The primary clinical results were “disappointing” because positive ...
Sexting — sending sexually explicit messages or pictures — has been proven “not uncommon” for at-risk early adolescents in a study published Jan. 6 by a team lead by Christopher Houck, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior. The study found 22 percent of seventh-grade participants ...
Rhode Island doctor Milton Hamolsky dies at 92 Professor Emeritus of Medical Science Milton Hamolsky died Jan. 18 after a lifetime of accomplishment in the medical field. Hamolsky played a role in creating the Alpert Medical School, the Providence Journal reported. After arriving in Providence in ...
The comb jelly — a shapeless, squishy blob that reflects the colors around it — may be our most distant animal relative, according to a study conducted by an international team of researchers that included Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn. The study was published last month in the journal ...
Many Brown researchers spend their days working with mice, bats and primates, a practice that many members of the community call a scientific necessity. But others say they find animal research morally ambiguous, an opinion that has become especially salient due to a recent complaint filed against a ...
An animal welfare group has filed a claim with federal regulators alleging that a study examining alcohol’s effects on pigs led by an Alpert Medical School faculty member violated the Animal Welfare Act. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit based in Washington that promotes ...
Researchers such as Ryan Carney GS can now determine the skin color of extinct reptiles — knowledge that can lead to insight about their behaviors. Carney and his colleagues performed a detailed chemical analysis of reptilian pigment molecules, with the resulting study published in Nature Jan 8. “Our ...
For 24 hours, the 225 students attending Hack@Brown had seemingly endless access to pizza, web tools and engineers from some of the top technology companies in the world. Student software creators from approximately 15 other universities made their way to College Hill Friday to join Brown and Rhode ...
Since 1989, Edith Mathiowitz, professor of molecular pharmacology, physiology and biotechnology, has been issued 30 patents, many of which relate to her work on the development of an insulin pill that could improve the treatment of diabetes. For her work, Mathiowitz, along with Professor of Physics ...
The American Diabetes Association awarded $1.6 million to Wolfgang Peti, associate professor of medical science, for his research on type 2 diabetes earlier this month. Peti was one of five researchers to receive a special award given to those just entering the diabetes research world, according ...
Two distinct motors drive cilia movement University physicists determined that two distinct motor mechanisms of cilia — tiny, stringy fibers — are at work in a single cell. The presence of two different modes of movement could help scientists understand how cilia have adapted to perform a wide ...
Carbon dioxide may soon become a key player in the financial industry. Over the past six months, Nabil Lawandy, an affiliated professor of engineering and physics, and his former graduate student Andrei Smuk PhD ’00, have used a derivative of carbon dioxide to effectively clean paper money without ...
While World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 brings HIV/AIDS to the forefront of public attention, many University researchers are working to understand and combat HIV/AIDS every day of the year. The Brown University AIDS Program, which includes more than 30 faculty members, works to address intersecting issues ...
Brains of infants carrying a gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease develop differently than those of non-carriers, according to a recent study published by researchers at Brown and Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix. The study, published Nov. 25 in the journal JAMA Neurology, details the ...
Despite widespread stigmatization of smoking cigarettes, the use of electronic cigarettes is on the rise nationwide. Electronic cigarettes, better known as e-cigarettes, simulate smoking by vaporizing a liquid solution containing nicotine and often added flavors. “There’s emerging research that ...
The University advertises conducting research as a “vital part of the undergraduate experience” on its admissions website, but administrators do not know how many students actually conduct research during their undergraduate years. Administrators track the total number of Undergraduate Teaching ...
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