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Bazilevs receives 2021 ASME Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award
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Nitin Padture to deliver Presidential Faculty Award Lecture
Padture, a professor of engineering, will discuss emerging solar technologies and their implementation in grid-scale renewable energy solutions.
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In an important step toward a fully implantable intracortical brain-computer interface system, BrainGate researchers demonstrated the first human use of a wireless transmitter capable of delivering high-bandwidth neural signals.
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Engineering’s Dwyer, Dastin-van Rijn and Kumar Selected NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Recent graduates Safford, Vuong and Wu also among those chosen for National Science Foundation Fellowship
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New AI technique could help doctors predict aneurysm rupture
A new study shows that an artificial intelligence system informed with the physical laws governing flowing fluids can infer pressures and stresses on capillaries just by analyzing images or videos of blood flow.
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A varsity student-athlete who graduated in Brown’s Class of 1992, Calhoun will serve in a newly elevated role of vice president of athletics and recreation, beginning April 19, 2021.
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With a new grant from NASA, a team of Brown and RISD students is developing a system that may help protect spacesuits from sticky and highly abrasive lunar dust.
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A team of Brown University researchers developed a technique that uses tiny polymer spheres to sense the forces at play as body tissue forms and grows.
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Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters
Brown University researchers have shown that tiny channels between graphene sheets can be aligned in a way that makes them ideal for water filtration.
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Seven things you should know about Selim Suner ’86, ScM’87, MD’92
If the name seems familiar, it’s likely because Dr. Selim Suner has been frequently sought by newspapers and television stations in Rhode Island for his expertise on how local hospitals are handling the COVID-19 crisis.
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Return to Brown feels like home
As an employee of General Motors, Yue Qi was involved early with the Collaborative Research Laboratory partnership established between GM and Brown University. Continuing these collaborations with Brown colleagues as her career progressed from industry to academia, Qi’s return to campus in July as the newest engineering faculty member was eased by the familial feelings she already had for Brown Engineering.
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Karniadakis to receive SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
A brain-computer interface study reveals one brain region’s surprising role in planning movements exclusively in response to sounds.
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The systems on the student-designed and -built EQUiSat functioned nearly flawlessly for over two years in the harshness of space before reentering Earth’s atmosphere on Dec. 26.
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Kumar named Computing Research Association undergraduate research finalist
A multi-institution effort to better understand, diagnose and prevent concussions received a $10 million boost from the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
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A new study uses computer simulations to track airflows inside a car’s passenger cabin, providing potential strategies — some of them counterintuitive — for reducing the risk of transmitting airborne diseases.
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Obfuscating for security
As researchers explore faster data transfer rates in the terahertz range, new strategies for thwarting eavesdropping attempts by utilizing atmospheric effects were investigated by Malachi Hornbuckle ‘22, funded in part by a Nielsen summer fellowship.
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Powering next gen battery research
Energy storage technology interests led mechanical engineer Elizabeth Healy ’21 to the Sheldon Lab. A DiMase Family Internship allowed her to develop those interests in an academic research setting, pushing the boundaries on next generation lithium-ion batteries.
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Investigating brain-inspired spiking neural networks
Jayakumar Fellowship allows Andrew Duncombe ’21 to design computer architectures that make the implementation of complex computing processes, like neural networks, feasible for real-world applications.
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New lab studies are helping researchers to better understand how so called “forever chemicals” behave in soil and water, which can help in understanding how these contaminants spread.
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In a conversation with leaders of Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science, two Brown neuroengineers explored how brain-computer interfaces promise to help restore movement in people with brain or spinal disorders.
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Brown and RISD launch joint master of arts in design engineering
RISD Industrial Design and Brown’s School of Engineering are accepting applications for a master’s program focused on intersection of design and engineering.
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Students help to devise ‘home labs’ for remote fluids course
An introductory fluid mechanics class in the School of Engineering couldn’t be taught in-person this fall, but a group of undergraduates worked over the summer to make sure hands-on lab experiments remain part of the course.
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School of Engineering Launches New, More Accessible Website
After nearly a year of designing, planning, and testing, the Brown School of Engineering has launched its new website today.
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NSF grant sponsors Rosenstein research into hybrid information systems
By efficiently converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, a new catalyst developed by a team of Brown researchers could potentially aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide.
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Toussaint named Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering
Novel coronavirus and its effect on University science laboratories has kept engineering student Portia Tieze from working on campus this summer — so she brought the lab to her apartment to continue her research.
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Cloud Agronomics — a student and alumni venture launched with support from the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship — uses hyperspectral imaging to detect crop-borne diseases that destabilize food supplies and cost farmers billions.
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Brown funds biomedical technologies with commercial potential, patient benefits
Biomedical engineering projects were named two of the five Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact awards intended to accelerate medical solutions into commercial technologies.
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Study reveals science behind traditional mezcal-making technique
Researchers reveal for the first time why bubbles are a good gauge of alcohol content in the traditional Mexican spirit.
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