As students commenced their Brown academic careers, President Christina H. Paxson and Dean of the School of Engineering Tejal Desai urged them to seek out new perspectives and immerse themselves in research.
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Brown Ph.D. student Anoop Kiran named to Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties
By nurturing interest in math, a weeklong program led by Brown's mathematics institute aims to expand interest and access to STEM career opportunities for young women.
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Engineering real-world impact robots
With a dual appointment in engineering and computer science, Associate Professor Nora Ayanian looks at solutions for end-to-end multi-robot coordination – that is, making a team of robots work without roboticists on hand to monitor their progress.
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Nancy Carroll Named Associate Dean for Finance and Administration
The lab of George Karniadakis, professor of applied mathematics and engineering, leads the charge of developing physics-informed neural networks to diagnose and predict the severity of arterial aneurysms.
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The new process, which is more effective and efficient than conventional methods, has the potential to significantly impact cancer diagnostics as well as other fields of research.
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Giving wings to a wind turbine blade
Building and executing an experiment to test a novel idea for improving wind turbine efficiency was the senior capstone project of Alex Koh-Bell ’22, funded in part by a spring semester Halpin Prize.
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A bio-inspired wing for tidal energy harvesting
A senior capstone and Halpin Prize winning project of Ilan Upfal ’22.5 focused on optimization strategies for tidal energy capture, an experimental system approached from a signal processing viewpoint.
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Brain practices new tasks while people sleep, study finds
A new study associated with the BrainGate consortium offered significant clues about how humans learn and form long-term memories; the findings could provide insights for developers of assistive tools for people with paralysis.
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The Brown Corporation authorized a process to select an architect and launch a full programming phase for the building, a critical step in a long-held vision to create new laboratory space for cutting-edge life sciences research.
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Alumni Perspective: Dan Leibholz
Corporate Advisory Board member Dan Leibholz credits Brown experiences, in and out of the classroom, for his semiconductor industry success.
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Engineering’s Henke earns Fulbright Scholarship
The prestigious award offers young scholars the opportunity to teach, study and pursue research internationally.
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Engineering’s Soepriatna named Postdoctoral Excellence Award winner
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Brown holds second workshop to conceptualize equitable health tech of future
For the second time in four months, engineers at Brown convene a group of scholars and experts to examine achievable home-based technologies for the next decade.
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Abriola awarded Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Groundwater Prize
A new material developed at Brown University can respond to the presence of bacterial enzymes by releasing a cargo of therapeutic nanoparticles, which could prove particularly helpful in wound dressings.
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5 Questions for a Brunonian: Recent Grad and Engineer Matt Lo ’18 ScM’19
Supportive parents and a balanced life are keys to success, according to this product engineer and entrepreneur.
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Grant, Pruitt tabbed 2022 Brown Engineering Alumni Medalists
Brown Engineering has named North Carolina State professor Christine Grant ’84 and University of California, Berkeley professor Lisa Pruitt Sc.M. ’90, Ph.D. ’93 as its 2022 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) winners. The presentation of the BEAM medals took place at the annual engineering awards dinner held over Commencement and Reunion weekend.
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Scholars from Rice and Brown universities say that next-generation wireless networks that use the technology could be designed with built-in defenses against the ‘metasurface-in-the-middle’ attack.
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Robotic swimmer sheds light on microorganisms in motion
A self-propelled robotic swimmer, developed by Brown University students and faculty, could help researchers better understand the complex swimming behaviors of bacteria and other microorganisms.
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Brown’s Alarie, McCall, and Waite selected NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Recent alumni Benmelech ’21, Gadre ’18, and Healy ’21 also honored by National Science Foundation
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Pulse oximeters often provide inaccurate readings for people with darker skin, a significant health disparity that physics Ph.D. student Rutendo Jakachira is working to eliminate.
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Hochberg, pioneer in brain-computer technology, receives 2022 VA Magnuson Award
With a massive shift under way toward more home-based health care delivery, more than 90 medical professionals and technologists gathered virtually to explore the challenges and opportunities that change presents.
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Engineering faculty awarded 2022 University research seed funding
Thirty-two Brown researchers, including six from the School of Engineering, are receiving University research awards through 21 Research Seed grants, totaling $1M.
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Hochberg, BrainGate+SoftRobotics team awarded CERF Prize for ALS research
A new 3D connective tissue model gives researchers a sophisticated tool to understand the underlying mechanisms of connective tissue disorders and test potential treatments.
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Accomplished biomedical engineer, academic leader named Brown School of Engineering dean
Tejal Desai, a professor and researcher who has led academic programs at the University of California San Francisco, Boston University and elsewhere, will work to expand collaborative engineering research and teaching.
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Associate Professor Ayanian joins Brown engineering, computer science faculty
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Meeting Monica Martinez Wilhelmus
As the Fluids faculty at Brown continues to expand, Assistant Professor Monica Martinez Wilhelmus tackles tangible contributions to climate science.
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The discovery of electrical signals in the brain associated with OCD could enable an emerging type of adaptive deep brain stimulation therapy as an improved treatment.
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With the help of an advanced machine learning technique, researchers from Brown University suggest strategies for improving the performance of epidemiological models used to predict the course of pandemics.
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