Clad only in a diaper, a baby perches at the top of a slide and eyes toys at the end of the path below him. Too young to walk, he slides down the slope to end his journey at the rewards he sought. Variations on this scenario — depicted in a series of videos psychologist Karen Adolph showed during ...
Tadpoles are helping University researchers understand the mechanisms of autism. Eric James GS presented a tadpole model of autism at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego Nov. 10. James and Arseny Khakhalin, a postdoctoral fellow, started studying tadpole autism in Associate ...
Rwandan medical schools receive international boost Recent efforts by Brown medical professionals and health care providers from other institutions to strengthen medical provider training in Rwanda were outlined in a report published Nov. 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Individual impulsivity and genetic variation make certain marijuana users more prone to “marijuana-related problems,” according to a new study led by Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior L. Cinnamon Bidwell. The study, published in the November edition of the Journal of Studies ...
Ethnic minorities are less likely to receive adequate treatment for anxiety disorders than non-minorities, according to the results of a new study from University researchers. The researchers evaluated a number of different factors, such as the income and education level of patients receiving treatment ...
The University sent two student delegations over the past two weeks to the 19th Convention of Parties, an annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which serves as a platform for negotiations and assessments of international progress in reducing carbon emissions. The ...
Understanding biotechnology is impossible without considering capitalism, said Hallam Stevens, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore, during a lecture Wednesday night. A small group of students and faculty members gathered in Barus and Holley 190 to hear his talk, part ...
A recent study by University geologists will help inform a Russian mission to the Martian moon, Phobos. The mission, which is planned to launch mid-2020, will be the first to return with deep-space material, including material from Mars and will potentially answer questions about Phobos’ origin. The ...
Shifting dynamics of the United States’ elderly population include increased racial and economic diversity and a more prominent role of grandparents in their families’ lives as adult children rely more on their mothers and fathers for support, according to a recent study published Nov. 6. The report, ...
By Thanksgiving of 2014, students in the computer science department may be preparing traditional desserts alongside Baxter, a new two-armed robot the department acquired Nov. 5 that may be able to assist with pie-baking. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stefanie Tellex and Associate Professor ...
When the sun set in the middle of Harvard Associate Professor of Medicine Steven Lockley’s lecture, Lockley’s computer darkened as a program called f.lux automatically disabled his computer’s blue light. Blue light has been shown to stimulate cognitive brain activity even in visually blind individuals ...
In a small room in the Geological Sciences building — where it is about 70 degrees Farenheight and 55 percent humidity — resides the University’s two plasma mass spectrometers. The larger of the contraptions measures the isotope, or the structure of an element, according to its atomic mass and ...
Findings from a study showing that the impacts of extreme drought conditions and high temperatures vary across a tropical rainforest’s landscape have implications for understanding global warming trends. The findings of Carlos Silva GS and Jim Kellner, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary ...
As it turns out, falling asleep soon after studying might help you remember what you just read, according to findings that researchers in Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences Takeo Wantanabe’s lab presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, CA last Sunday. From ...
Prenatal cocaine exposure affects adolescent risk-taking Adolescents who grow up in adverse environments are likelier to “engage in risk-taking behaviors,” according to a new study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics last week. The study involved a multi-institution ...
Extending an organism’s life simply by increasing the concentration of an enzyme may be possible, thanks to groundbreaking results from a study on gene expression led by Robert Reenan, professor of biology, in collaboration with several graduate students and field experts. The idea for the research ...
Getting adequate sleep “could help prevent excess weight gain over time” in children, according to a new study conducted by Chantelle Hart, a former assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior who is now an associate professor at Temple University. The study, published online Nov. 4, examined ...
With November marking the 13th year of permanent human residence at the International Space Station, NASA is beginning to look for new opportunities for space exploration. Its new Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute will team up with 19 researchers from Brown to develop a scientific ...
High school students’ standardized test scores are adversely affected by violent crime’s presence in Chicago schools, according to new research by Julia Burdick-Will, a postdoctoral researcher in Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center. By linking high schools with the location of violent ...
Academics have escaped the ivory tower and are using research findings in attempts to better the world. A recent report from the Science Coalition, an advocacy group of research universities including Brown, highlighted nearly 200 startup companies that were directly inspired by academic research. ...
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