News from Brown

A Brown assistant professor studied how the “cellular powerhouse” responds to microgravity stress markers as a part of a NASA study of identical twins.

Renowned engineering professor Huajian Gao is honored for his research in mechanical engineering and material science.

After a successful pilot with high-need students, Brown will expand textbook and course materials program to first-year students receiving University scholarship funds and undergraduates who have a $0 parent contribution.

As envisioned, the state-of-the-art center will provide teams with a central space for training, practice and competition — amplifying the student-athlete experience and advancing teams’ ability to succeed at the highest level.

A poster session during National Public Health Week showcased an array of research on public health concerns in communities from college campuses to Cape Town, South Africa.

A partnership between Brown and I.E. University, the 10th annual “Reinventing Higher Education” conference convened 37 international opinion leaders from higher education and the private sector to discuss educating and managing the global workforce of the future.

In a study of 200 years of pre-industrial Quebecois genealogical history, researchers at Brown found that fertility-related changes in natural selection during the pre-industrial era paved the way for economic and technological progress.

The Israeli firm SpaceIL turned to Brown’s Jim Head for help in selecting a landing site for what is expected in the coming weeks to become the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon.

Brown engineering professor Chris Rose thinks the tiny data disks with volumes of human knowledge currently flying to the Moon on the Beresheet spacecraft are a great way to communicate across time and space.

The grant will bring up to eight military fellows to Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs over the next two years.

In a Janus Forum event hosted at Brown by the Political Theory Project, economist Paul Krugman and psychologist Steven Pinker debated whether humanity is headed for progress or a setback.

The Brown Promise initiative, which replaces loans with scholarship funds in all University-packaged undergraduate financial aid awards, played a significant role in attracting Brown’s largest applicant pool to date.

Opening on Saturday, April 6, “Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: The Only Show in Town” depicts the process of researching a near-extinct East Coast bird species in an era of rising tides.

Using a powerful X-ray imaging system, Brown University scientists found that catfish move joints throughout their head in a concerted manner to suck in their prey.

The stress-response master regulator is important for antibiotic resistance and the ability for bacteria to cause disease.

The biosphere that exists below Earth’s surface dwarfs the surface biome, and a new collaboration co-led by Jack Mustard will work to better understand what’s underground.

The grant will enable the digitization of the program’s peer-reviewed monograph series, providing increased access to unique, high-quality Judaic studies scholarship.

The results are the first part of a national study of whether a method to detect Alzheimer’s-related plaques improves the outcomes of patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

A new type of hydrogel material developed by Brown University researchers could soon make assembling complex microfluidic or soft robotic devices as simple as putting together a LEGO set.

This type of learning transfer opens the door for applying basic cognitive science research to help patients with vision loss.

Brown researchers are building understanding of the brain, restoring movement for patients with paralysis, unlocking the secrets of devastating diseases and devising new treatments to address brain-related disorders.

With an increased focus on unearthing novel data sources for analysis, Brown’s economics scholars are bringing new insights to complex problems and teaching the next generation of researchers and policymakers to do the same.

Learning at Brown is a collaborative, hands-on experience — one in which students often lead their own research projects or conduct research alongside their instructors.

Humanities scholars at Brown are energizing comparative work that informs a deeper understanding of the most challenging questions of global common concern.