When she is not pole vaulting for the track and field team or overseeing the Women’s Peer Counselor program at Brown, Hanna McPhee ’14 is doing what many other seniors are doing — completing her thesis. The only difference for McPhee is that when she encounters problems, she doesn’t have a department ...
In a world in which people suffer from information overload, humans need to be able to mentally sift through data and decide what is relevant. Working memory, the capacity people have to retain information over short periods of time, provides the key to sorting through the heaps of mental data. University ...
For years, people have focused on improving and expanding science, technology, engineering and mathematics education because of the established link between a country’s ability to educate scientists and its economic well-being. But a new paper proposes that the economic benefits of STEM education ...
Though the effects of combining more than two medications to treat bipolar I disorder have never been examined scientifically, the average bipolar patient admitted to Butler Hospital in 2010 was on six different medications, according to a new study led by Lauren Weinstock, assistant professor of psychiatry ...
Professors win Sloan fellowships Two faculty members were selected for Sloan Research Fellowships this year and will receive $50,000 to continue their work in chemistry and computer science, according to a University press release. One of the recipients, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Wesley Bernskoetter, ...
By 2017, people will be able to look into space and see a satellite created by Brown students shining as brightly as the North Star. The satellite, or “CubeSat,” is a 10-centimeter-cubed satellite “about the size and weight of a grapefruit,” said Hannah Varner ’14, one of the leaders of ...
The first global map of the largest moon in the solar system — Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons — shows a sharp contrast between older cratered areas and newer, lighter terrain. The map was published last Wednesday after decades of research conducted by a team that included Brown professors and ...
External research funding to the University declined by about 17 percent in the fiscal year 2013, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 said in a faculty meeting last week. Though total grant volume has fallen by 20 percent since 2011, Schlissel said it has increased by almost 7 percent so far in fiscal year ...
“Seeing race is a social, rather than merely visual, experience,” said Osagie Obasogie, a professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of Law, in a lecture Tuesday afternoon. This conclusion, which Obasogie reached through his research, could have implications for policy and ...
Gene prolongs aging in flies Until recently, researchers believed that mutations in the “I’m Not Dead Yet” gene, Indy, occurred only in laboratory fruit flies. But, as explained in a study published online Jan. 31 in the journal Aging, the mutation also exists in wild fruit flies, according to ...
Lina Fruzzetti, professor of anthropology, recently published a book entitled “When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made, Choices Challenged.” Fruzzetti held a book signing Tuesday at the Brown Bookstore for her new work, which chronicles the tales of inter-caste and inter-religious marriages in Bishnupur, ...
New and detailed assessments of centuries-old burial sites suggest Phoenicians and their Carthaginian successors performed rituals of child sacrifice — adding new evidence to a mystery archaeologists have long debated. The new analysis, co-authored by Professor of Archaeology Peter Van Dommelen, ...
Researchers combed through the abstracts of over 6,000 studies to analyze youth ethnic-racial affect — how positive a person feels about their own race or ethnicity — in a meta-analysis published Feb. 3 in the journal Child Development. They concluded that feelings of ethnic pride and happiness ...
Tens of thousands of people flee their home countries every year to avoid persecution, seeking asylum in the United States. But the United States does not grant asylum to all of these individuals because many of them lack hard evidence of abuse. For this reason, the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic ...
Researchers model new nanomaterial Thirty-six boron atoms in the shape of a flat donut with a hexagonal hole could become an important new nanomaterial if scientists can find a way to produce it in the lab, according to a recent study in Nature Communications. Lai-Sheng Wang, principal investigator ...
The nature of conversations between physicians and their patients regarding HIV/AIDS medication varies with the race and ethnicity of the patient, according to a study published in the journal AIDS and Behavior last month. Michael Barton Laws, assistant professor of health services, policy and practice, ...
Personalized feedback about how students’ drinking habits stack up against those of their peers could be more effective at reducing first-years’ alcohol intake than bolstering alcohol education programs, according to a scientific literature review written by a team led by University researchers. The ...
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, ...
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