A daylong conference brought scientists from the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories to Brown to explore new collaborations and research pathways for faculty and students.
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Horacio Espinosa '89 Sc.M., '90 Sc.M., '92 Ph.D. has spent his career finding answers that are reshaping how we understand materials, medicine, and the microscopic world. A three-time Brown graduate and world-leading researcher, Espinosa is the 2026 recipient of the Horace Mann Medal, the Brown Graduate School's highest honor for alumni who have made significant contributions in their field.
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News From Engineering
Eight engineering students and five alumni granted NSF GRFP awards
In all, six members of the senior class, two current graduate students, and five undergraduate alumni from Brown University engineering have been granted funds from the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Two others were tabbed honorable mention selections.
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Daniel Harris Honored for Graduate Mentorship Defined by Care, Presence, and Community
Daniel M. Harris, Associate Professor of Engineering, has received the Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring, an honor that reflects not only his accomplishments as a researcher and teacher, but also his deep commitment to students.
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Researchers from Brown, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, developed a new approach to measuring cell elasticity, a factor of emerging importance in human health.
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As Brown community members continue to support one another in the aftermath of Dec. 13, the Brown Ever True initiative is collecting and sharing examples of care and strength expressed through art.
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News From Engineering
Zhou earns CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
Through the early-career grant, Peipei Zhou will advance the scalable, verifiable co-design of heterogeneous reconfigurable computing systems, enabling domain experts to efficiently build next-generation customized AI and data-intensive applications, such as autonomous physical systems, adaptive intelligent agents, and advanced healthcare technologies.
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Brown engineering dean elected AAAS Fellow
The world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society has honored Tejal Desai for contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.
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To help in the fight against antibiotic overuse and resistance, researchers have developed a new wound dressing material that releases antibiotic nanoparticles only when harmful bacteria are present.
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News From Engineering
Q&A with Jacquie Pierri ’12
After graduating from Brown University with a focus on sustainable energy, Jacquie Pierri ’12 took her hockey talents to the global stage, competing for the host, Team Italy, in the 2026 Winter Olympics. As an engineer and EcoAthlete, she is leveraging her platform as a hockey player to champion climate change awareness and sustainable innovation in sports.
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Implantable device research from the BrainGate clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury.
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In new results from a clinical trial, researchers show that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore the muscle control and sensory feedback required for coordinated walking movements.
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News From Engineering
Hardware’s open invitation to rethink chip design
Assistant Professor Mehdi Saligane explores new ways to design silicon, combining energy-efficient circuits, artificial intelligence, and open design ecosystems to make advanced chip design faster, more efficient, and more accessible.
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Donoghue was awarded the prize, considered among the most prestigious honors in engineering, for pioneering work in developing brain-computer interfaces, which enable the restoration of voluntary communication and limb function in people with paralysis.
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As global manufacturing evolved, Hiro Furuya ’25 Sc.M. used Brown’s technology leadership program to strengthen a people-centered approach shaping organizations worldwide.
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In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers show how cells orbit and reconfigure their surroundings to venture outward from confined spheroids.
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News From Engineering
Warshay Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Nepal at The British College
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Minding the math
Howard E. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Engineering and Brain Science Leo Kozachkov studies how intelligence works through the lens of engineering, mathematics and computer science.
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Connecting with cookies
For two years now in December, the School of Engineering has collected pre-packaged cookies for the stockings of the elderly residents of the Jeanne Jugan Little Sisters of the Poor Residence in Pawtucket. This year, when tragedy struck and the building was closed, the collected cookies remained in a fourth floor office as the holidays approached.
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Brown University engineers showed that applying a temperature gradient across a solid-state electrolyte blocks destructive dendrite growth, offering a practical solution to a major barrier in battery technology.
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Engineering alumni Huddleston, Lalwani named to Forbes 30 under 30 list
School of Engineering alumni John Huddleston ’21 and Anand Lalwani ’18 named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Brown’s School of Engineering has now had seven selections in the past seven years.
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