The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has renewed the Superfund Research Program for a third multiyear period of support. The funding of more than $2.1 million a year for five years will enable Brown University scientists to further pursue studies of contamination at several sites around Rhode Island and effective ways to detect and prevent its adverse health effects.
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza and Dr. Dana Suskind, a national expert on early language exposure, will take part in the inaugural policy forum for the Providence Talks initiative on Monday, Oct. 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Brown University's Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center. Providence Talks was founded in 2013 by the City of Providence, in partnership with Brown, to improve the vocabularies of preschool children.
Evidence from experiments reported in the journal Neuron show that a specific region of the brain appears essential for resolving the uncertainty that can build up as we progress through an everyday sequence of tasks. It’s a key node in a network responsible for keeping us on track.
The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University has received a five-year, $17.5-million grant from the National Science Foundation. ICERM is one of eight NSF-sponsored Mathematics Institutes across the country and the only one in New England.
Brown University and Michigan State University will share a $6.8 million federal grant to test an intervention to reduce suicides among people being released from jail.
Brown University, one of 27 institutions participating in a nationwide independent survey of campus climate on sexual assault, has made its own survey results public, with officials reiterating a call to action from a faculty-student-staff Sexual Assault Task Force last year. The survey was organized by the Association of American Universities, of which Brown is a member.
Wandering an arid region of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea about 260-million years ago, the pre-reptile Bunostegos akokanensis is the oldest known creature to have walked upright on all fours, according to a newly published study.
Brown University researchers will lead a multi-institutional set of studies examining whether mindfulness interventions are effective in helping patients stick with medically recommended lifestyle changes.
