A team of Brown University researchers including PhD candidate Jihun Lee and Professor Arto Nurmikko has used a brain-computer interface to reconstruct English words from neural signals recorded in the brains of nonhuman primates. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications Biology, could be a step toward developing brain implants that may help people with hearing loss, the researchers say.

Brown’s SWE chapter sent 16 students to the annual Women in Engineering Conference this year. Students represented 7 engineering concentrations and included 5 BME undergraduates. The conference featured workshops, lectures, a career fair, and fun perks like tours of Disneyland California and complimentary massages and manicures.

Sahani realized she wanted more hands-on experience in terms of engineering and came to the conclusion that it is necessary for her to get a secondary degree to get into advanced research and development in the medical device field. Brown University was her top choice because of its available research facilities, access to faculty, and an open curriculum which allowed her to focus on what she was interested in.

Researchers have used nanotechnology to identify a potentially groundbreaking treatment for an aggressive bone cancer that has proven disappointingly unresponsive to existing therapies, a new study shows.