Brown/Mit Team Chosen For New NASA Institute

Posted On Friday, November 8, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , ,   
Nineteen researchers from Brown and seven from MIT, together with researchers from four other institutions and seven other countries are part of NASA’s new Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). The Brown/MIT team will focus on the environment and evolution of the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and the two Martian ...

First Results From LUX Dark Matter Detector

Posted On Friday, November 1, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , ,   
The first 90-day run of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment showed the detector to be the most sensitive in the world. The experiment did not detect dark matter particles during its initial run, but it has ruled out “possible” findings elsewhere. The research team will fine-tune the detector’s sensitivity ...

NYC police commissioner to give Krieger Lecture

Posted On Thursday, October 24, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , , ,   
Raymond Kelly, police commissioner of the New York City, will deliver the annual Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, at 4 p.m. in the List Art Center auditorium. Kelly will discuss “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City.” Sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and ...

BrainGate Team Wins $1M Prize in Israel

Posted On Thursday, October 17, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , , , ,   
For their work to develop a brain-computer interface that could help restore independence for people with severe paralysis, Brown University’s BrainGate team has won the $1-million Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund B.R.A.I.N. Prize. Israeli President Shimon Peres presented the prize in Tel Aviv Oct. 15, 2013. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The team ...

Brain Anatomy and Language in Young Children

Posted On Thursday, October 10, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
Language ability is usually located in the left side of the brain. Researchers studying brain development in young children who were acquiring language expected to see increasing levels of myelin, a nerve fiber insulator, on the left side. They didn't: The larger myelin structure was already there. Their study underscores ...

What Obamacare Does And Doesn’t Mean

Posted On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
As Obamacare — the Healthcare Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 — begins enrolling people for insurance Oct. 1, 2013, it could change the lives of millions of Americans and yet leave many others completely unaffected. Its impact on healthcare at large, argues Christopher Koller, Brown University School ...

Palestinian Leader Hanan Ashrawi to Speak

Posted On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Palestinian leader, legislator, and activist Hanan Ashrawi will visit Brown University Sept. 25 and 26, 2013, to kick off a series of events organized by the Middle East Studies Initiative marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Principles on the White House ...

An Extraordinary Year for Faculty Hiring

Posted On Monday, September 16, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , , ,   
One of the most successful hiring cycles in recent years has brought the total of regular Brown faculty to 731. The new hiring includes many senior scholars, new leadership for several campus areas, and six new faculty for the School of Engineering — and prepares the University to respond to ...

NIH Grants Brown $11M for Brain Research

Posted On Monday, September 9, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , , ,   
Brown University is launching five research projects on the neuroscience of attention and related disorders, part of a new COBRE Center for Central Nervous System Function. The new center, designed to launch research careers for junior faculty, pairs each junior faculty member with a senior mentor. The Center is funded ...

Bartov to address 250th Opening Convocation

Posted On Saturday, August 31, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
Omer Bartov, professor of history, will deliver the 250th Opening Convocation address to the campus community, including new undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students beginning their studies at Brown this fall. The ceremony begins at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, on the College Green. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University ...

Phipps Named OB-GYN Chair, Chief and Assistant Dean

Posted On Saturday, August 24, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
Praising her as a leader in clinical practice, education, research and the community, Brown University and Care New England Health System officials announced that Dr. Maureen G. Phipps will be the new chair of OB-GYN and assistant dean in the Alpert Medical School, and chief of OB-GYN in the health ...

New Drug Sentencing Policy a Positive Step

Posted On Saturday, August 17, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
Glenn Loury and Josiah Rich Glenn Loury and Josiah Rich Three Brown University professors who study addiction and incarceration and drug policy praised the new approach to sentencing articulated by Attorney General Eric Holder in a speech Monday Aug. 12. PROVIDENCE, R.I.  — Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech to the American Bar Association Aug. 12 in ...

More Intestinal Cells Can Absorb Larger Particles

Posted On Friday, August 9, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
A new study reports that the small intestine uses more cells than scientists had realized to absorb microspheres large enough to contain therapeutic protein drugs, such as insulin. The finding in rats, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is potentially good news for developing a means for oral delivery ...

Ancient Snowfall Likely Carved Martian Valleys

Posted On Friday, July 26, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , , ,   
Researchers at Brown University have shown that some Martian valleys appear to have been caused by runoff from orographic precipitation — moisture carried part of the way up a mountain and deposited on the slopes. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Valley networks branching across the Martian surface leave little doubt that water once flowed ...

Newly Found CLAMP Protein Regulates Genes

Posted On Thursday, July 18, 2013 By . Under FEATURED, RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
Newly Found CLAMP Protein Regulates Genes A newly discovered protein, found in many species, turns out to be the missing link that allows a key regulatory complex to find and operate on the lone X chromosome of male fruit flies, bringing them to parity with females. Called CLAMP, the protein provides a model of how such ...

Brown Keeps Up Fight Against Dutch Elm Disease

Posted On Thursday, July 11, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
Brown University will remove two small elm trees infected with Dutch elm disease. The trees, on the Front Green, are 10 to 15 years old and one of them had been thought to be disease-resistant. Removal of diseased trees is essential to maintaining Brown’s 82 elm trees, one of the ...

Computer Models Figure Out Sickle Cell Crisis

Posted On Thursday, June 27, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
A sickle cell crisis isn't just about sickle-shaped red blood cells that block capillaries. A second, stickier kind of red blood cell starts the obstruction, making it difficult for sickle cells to flow past. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Using powerful computer models, researchers from Brown University have shown for the first ...

Study Builds Dossier on JC Polyomavirus

Posted On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , ,   
A new study shows that common mutant forms of the deadly JC polyomavirus are not responsible for the pathogen’s main attack, which causes a brain-damaging disease in immunocompromised patients called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. But that finding raises the ominous question of what the mutants might be up to instead. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The ...
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