Graduate students Chinyere Agbai and Arjee Restar have earned competitive national awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support their studies to improve health for underserved populations.
Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Dr. Janice Santos, assistant professor of surgery and a physician with Brown Urology, has been working to help provide relief where an urgent medical crisis continues.
New research shows that equatorial waves — pulses of warm ocean water that play a role in regulating Earth’s climate — are driven by the same dynamics as the exotic materials known as topological insulators.
Working in Brown University’s Center for Computation and Visualization, application scientist Benjamin Knorlein, here with visiting scientist Tom Sgouros, helps turn research data into virtual reality.
By the close of the fiscal year on June 30, the endowment had contributed $179 million to the University, representing approximately $19,000 per student and 18 percent of Brown’s operating budget.
September 29, 2017
Using the YURT, application scientist Ben Knorlein can help scientists immerse themselves in three-dimensional visualizations of their data, such as microscopic imagery of phytoplankton in a drop of ocean water.
Stephen Crocker
Tushar Bhargava and Noah Fields earned top honors in the prestigious 2017 Undergraduate Awards, with 17 additional Brown students and recent alumni ‘highly commended.’
