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Keying a successful venture

January 23, 2024

After taking a leave of absence from her studies to kickstart a keyboard business, chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate Ana Oliveira Kannan has returned to complete her dissertation.

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Extending the welcome mat of the Brown Design Workshop

January 20, 2024

Associate Professor of the Practice Louise Manfredi brings industrial experience, capacity-building mindset to the popular makerspace in Prince Lab.

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Wilhelmus named to Young Investigator Program by ONR

January 18, 2024

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Harris earns CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation

January 16, 2024

The early-career grant will help Daniel Harris establish a more complete and unified physical understanding of particles at interfaces, and share new experimental designs and methods that others can accessibly adapt for use in related research.

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Linking Leading and Learning

January 13, 2024

As one of the few Brown University faculty with a Ph.D. focused on the design of complex systems, the newest professor of the practice in the School of Engineering is uniquely qualified to launch a new course in the undergraduate curriculum.

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Karniadakis awarded 2024 G.I. Taylor Medal from SES

January 9, 2024

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Raimondo joins Brown Engineering faculty

January 8, 2024

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Karniadakis named 2023 Highly Cited Researcher™

December 21, 2023

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Department of Defense awards Engineering’s Breuer and Karniadakis with funds for equipment supporting defense-relevant research

December 20, 2023

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Engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, inducts 23 new members

December 19, 2023

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Brown’s Society of Women Engineers brings X-treme Gingerbread Competition to local Girl Scouts

December 18, 2023

Beyond the chance to make, shake and snack on the houses, the gingerbread challenge builds confidence, sparks creativity and hones essential engineering skills in Rhode Island Girl Scouts.

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Desai receives $1.2M from Gates Foundation

December 13, 2023

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2023 Year in Review

December 12, 2023

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Ahmadi wins lightning talk at Broad Institute’s Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium

November 16, 2023

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Coulombe takes top honors for Innovation of the Year

November 9, 2023

Three engineering projects were among the top six.

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The secret to longer lasting batteries might be in how soap works, new study says

November 8, 2023

Researchers found that one of the most promising electrolytes for designing longer lasting lithium batteries has complex nanostructures that act like micelle structures do in soaped water.

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Martin-Welp ’25 wins at AIChE Annual Student Conference poster competition

November 7, 2023

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Want the secret to less painful belly flops? These researchers have the answer.

November 6, 2023

Experiments by a Brown-led research team investigated belly flop mechanics and found surprising insights about air-to-water impacts that could be useful for marine engineering applications.

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Caretta wins 2023 iWOE Prize in Oxide Electronics for Excellence in Research

November 2, 2023

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President Biden awards National Medal of Science to Brown engineer Subra Suresh

October 24, 2023

In a ceremony at the White House, Biden awarded Suresh, a professor at large at Brown University’s School of Engineering, the nation’s highest scientific honor.

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Suresh presented with insignia of National Order of the Legion of Honour in France

October 24, 2023

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Annual School of Engineering Career and Internship Fair coming to Hazeltine Commons

October 20, 2023

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Welch named 2023 STAT Wunderkind

October 17, 2023

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Brown launches new endowed symposium at frontiers of technology and society

October 11, 2023

Provost announces the establishment of biennial Subra Suresh Symposium at the Frontiers of Technology and Society, honoring the former NSF Director and Brown Professor at Large.

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Kimia awarded $1.2M from NSF for novel methods to integrate 3D views into 3D structures

October 6, 2023

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Faculty inventions, startups shine at inaugural Innovation at Brown Showcase

October 6, 2023

As part of Rhode Island Startup Week, business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs convened in Providence to connect with Brown scientists launching breakthrough technologies across health, life sciences and biotechnology.

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Shukla named one of 10 emerging leaders by National Academy of Medicine

October 4, 2023

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New institute convenes biomedical engineers and clinicians to create solutions to improve human health

October 2, 2023

The new Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine at Brown University is developing and advancing research collaborations to produce biomedical ideas and innovations with clinical impact.

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Brown’s biomedical engineering institute to lead alliance focused on faculty diversity

October 2, 2023

Researchers from the Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine at Brown will lead an effort with Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Yale to increase the number of faculty from historically underrepresented groups.

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New drug delivery system developed by Brown engineers has potential to improve cancer treatments

September 20, 2023

The hydrogel is designed to balance pH levels in a malignant tumor and act as a delivery system for one of the most effective cancer fighting drugs, potentially addressing critical problems faced in current cancer treatment.

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Pennell awarded $1.36M for in situ remediation of PFAS-impacted groundwater

September 20, 2023

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Using topology, Brown researchers advance understanding of how cells organize themselves

September 14, 2023

The research can help unlock answers around how cells assemble themselves during embryonic development and what happens when this fundamental process goes awry.

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Brown’s Hochberg joins American Society of Neurorehabilitation Board of Directors

September 12, 2023

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Brown Engineering’s Taubin has paper included in computer graphics book celebration

September 8, 2023

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Reda joins Amazon Scholars: Optimization at Scale

September 7, 2023

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Four incoming engineering PhD students supported by GEM Fellowships

September 6, 2023

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Suresh, former director of NSF, returns to Brown Engineering as Professor at Large

September 1, 2023

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Engineering’s Bazilevs, Guduru awarded supplemental $5.5M for undersea vehicle science and technology

August 30, 2023

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Brown launches Center for Career Exploration, significantly expanding support for students developing career paths

August 30, 2023

Deepening the University’s legacy of student-centered learning, the center will expand career advising, resources, programs and partnerships to position students to achieve successful lives and careers.

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Desai named BMES Pritzker Distinguished Lecture award winner

August 29, 2023

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Design Engineering concentration added to Brown School of Engineering offerings

August 28, 2023

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Engineering staff awards presented to Garfinkel, Piers

August 23, 2023

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Brain-computer interface guides speech-disabled person’s intended words to computer screen

August 23, 2023

Using a brain-computer interface, a clinical trial participant who lost the ability to speak was able to create text on a computer at rates that approach the speed of regular speech just by thinking of saying the words.

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Brown fluid dynamics researchers shed light on how partially submerged objects experience drag

August 22, 2023

A team of Brown-led engineers show that a sphere held almost completely under flowing water induces drag forces several times greater than if it were fully submerged, detailing new and interesting physics of drag resistance.

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Satellite built by Brown students as low-cost way to reduce space junk reenters atmosphere years early

August 18, 2023

SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team of students, was confirmed to have successfully reentered Earth’s atmosphere in August, demonstrating a practical, low-cost method to cut down on space debris.

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Brown-led research provides unprecedented look at what influences sea ice motion in the Arctic

August 16, 2023

A new in-depth analysis of sea ice motion in the fastest-warming part of the globe shows how Arctic Ocean sea ice responds to different ocean currents and reveals that the seafloor plays a crucial role.

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