The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a five-year, $4.9 million grant to researchers from Brown and several partner institutions to study how state school systems can use teacher evaluation data to drive instructional improvement.
Perovskite solar cells are cheaper to make than traditional silicon cells and their electricity conversion efficiency is improving rapidly. To be commercially viable, perovskite cells need to scale up from lab size. Researchers from Brown and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory report a method for making perovskite cells larger while maintaining efficiency.
A new study finds that when elderly patients use more costly services such as nursing home, at-home, or acute hospital care they become more likely to find that private Medicare Advantage plans no longer serve their needs, driving them to transfer their coverage — and their costs — to traditional public Medicare.
In a new paper in Tissue Engineering: Part C, Brown University researchers describe a relatively accessible method for making a working – though not thinking – sphere of central nervous system tissue. The advance could provide an inexpensive and easy-to-make 3-D testbed for biomedical research.
A new study finds that the volume of hip fracture cases seen at a skilled nursing facility in the prior 12 months is a good predictor of whether a facility can successfully discharge patients back home within 30 days. That information could help families trying to decide where to seek care for an elderly loved one.
A team of researchers, including two at Brown University, show that when people smoked cigarettes with less nicotine, they smoked less, felt less craving, and tried to quit more. Results appear in The New England Journal of Medicine.
At the close of the 2015 fiscal year on June 30, Brown University’s endowment stood at $3.3 billion, representing a 5.7-percent return for the fiscal year.
Brown University brain scientists didn’t just study how recognition of familiarity and novelty arise in the mammalian brain, they actually took control, inducing rats to behave as if images they’d seen before were new, and images they had never seen were old.
A $12.5-million gift from the family of Alan Hassenfeld, to be matched by new fundraising by the University, will create the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute. Faculty, students, staff and community partners will focus on discovering and applying strategies to improve the lives of children and their families in Rhode Island, nationally, and globally.
A coalition of more than 80 public and private colleges and universities is trying to remake the college admission process, recasting it as the culmination of a multiyear process, increasing participation by under-represented groups, and easing the pressure of a traditional senior-year rite of passage.
