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Startup@Brown connects students with startups

The second annual Startup@Brown conference, to be held this weekend, offers entrepreneurial students a sneak peak at the startup world.
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Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve

William Jordan filled his childhood with books, but college was more of a goal than a given — now he’s a doctoral student who hopes his example will make that path more apparent for others than it was for him.
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Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides substantial new evidence that health becomes endangered when aging cells lose control of rogue elements of DNA called transposons.
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Brown to lead $9.7M grant to advance theory of aging

A new multi-university research effort will seek to determine whether rogue elements of DNA promote or even cause aging and whether interventions against them could help people live longer and more healthfully.
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Mitosis study finds potential cancer target

By drilling down to the atomic level of how specific proteins interact during cell division, or mitosis, a team of scientists has found a unique new target for attacking cancer.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Sophia Gluskin-Braun

With a passion for problem-solving, the engineering concentrator is focused on the fundamentals of light and playing a role in promising research on next-generation solar cells.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Nari Lee

A progression of summer experiences with faculty has left the rising senior with an expanding set of research skills and medical school aspirations.
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Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma

Using a laboratory device that can deliver concussive impacts to cell cultures and image the aftermath in real time, researchers from Brown are gaining new insight into how brain cells react to trauma.
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Technique could help climate models sweat the small stuff

Research led by a Brown University physicist reveals a way to include small-scale dynamics into computer simulations of large-scale phenomena, which could make for better climate models and astrophysical simulations.
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Software turns webcams into eye-trackers

Developed by computer scientists at Brown, the new software could help web developers to optimize content and make websites more user-friendly.
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NIH awards Brown $11.5M for computational biology research

Brown University will launch a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Computational Biology of Human Disease to expand its research using sophisticated computer analyses to understand and fight human diseases.
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Study finds that protein puts the brakes on melanin

Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments where melanin is made – that balance is partly regulated, scientists now know, by a protein called TPC2.
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Student’s senior thesis becomes Gates Foundation-funded project

Wilson Cusack, a senior computer science concentrator, developed a text-message-based trading platform that helps connect farmers and buyers. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he’ll pilot the project in the West African nation of Ghana.
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For botanist, road to White House led through Peruvian desert

The same scientific quest for which Erika Edwards won recognition from President Obama on May 5 had two months earlier led her and 12 students up dusty mountainsides in the world’s driest desert.
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Advance could help grow stem cells more safely

Nurturing stem cells atop a bed of mouse cells works well, but is a non-starter for transplants to patients – Brown University scientists are developing a synthetic bed instead.
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The making of ‘SciToons’

Scientific concepts like the human microbiome, genetic splicing or conductive polymers sound complicated, but in the SciToons series Brown University students and faculty members make them fun and easier to understand.
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Third annual Robot Block Party to be held at Brown

From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Saturday to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.
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Vibrations make large landslides flow like fluid

New research shows why some large landslides travel greater distances across flat land than scientists would generally expect, sometimes putting towns and populations far from mountainsides at risk.
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Living in a constant din, bats’ hearing remains resilient

Bats need sensitive hearing to function effectively, yet live immersed in an intense clamor of sound – a new study shows that the noisy background doesn’t reduce their hearing sensitivity, which is a rare immunity in nature.
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Amid the cacophony of bats, undergrad research takes flight

In two new studies inspired by the clamor of bats in flight, Brown undergraduates have made key contributions and ultimately come to regard research as a trajectory in their careers.
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Song wins NSF CAREER award

For her studies on how distraction affects motor learning and action, National Science Foundation recognizes Assistant Professor Joo-Hyun Song with a CAREER award, which she’ll use to advance her research.
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Graduate student honored by Chinese government

Yuanyuan ‘Alvin’ Zhou, an engineering graduate student, has been honored with the “Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.”
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Engineering tomorrow’s academic leaders

A new fellowship program in the School of Engineering aims to draw top postdoctoral scholars and groom them to be leaders in academia.
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Wrinkles and crumples make graphene better

Brown University researchers have developed a method for making super-wrinkled and super-crumpled sheets of the nanomaterial graphene. The research shows that the topography can enhance some of graphene’s already interesting properties.
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Bio boom: master’s programs take off

Reflecting demand in the economy, Brown’s graduate programs in biomedical engineering and biotechnology have more than quintupled their enrollment in four years.
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