A team of Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students recently won the inaugural Google Biodesign Sprint for their project Mobius, a manufacturing and disposal process for a biodegradable printed circuit board, or PCB.
Guido Imbens MA 鈥�89, PhD 鈥�91, applied econometrics professor and professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, sits in front of two square images of his children playing chess. Both of his sons started playing the game more during the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. ...
The School of Engineering was re-accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology at the end of September, validating and enabling the continual growth of the engineering program at Brown. Engineering schools are accredited every six years, and this most recent re-accreditation ...
Co-edited by University Professor Josiah 鈥淛ody鈥� Rich and Harvard Professor Sarah Wakeman and released Sept. 14, the book 鈥淭reating Opioid Use Disorder in General Medical Settings鈥� addresses opioid addiction and treatment and draws on the expertise of a wide range of co-authors.
Lawrence Larson, the dean of the School of Engineering, will step down from his role in June 2022, according to a Sept. 17 Today@Brown announcement. In his time as dean, Larson worked to expand the engineering school at Brown and modernize engineering research.
Two student co-founders have created and released Emit, a social media app created to help users find social events through user-released 鈥渇lares,鈥� alerting others of new and nearby events.
Dr. Peter Hollmann 鈥�76 MD 鈥�79, chief medical officer for Brown Medicine and clinical assistant professor of family medicine, was recently elected president of the American Geriatrics Society.聽 The American Geriatrics Society is a 鈥渘ationwide, not-for-profit society of geriatrics healthcare professionals ...
School board meetings with deliberation and discussion between the school board and community members are more likely to have higher community engagement, seen in a greater willingness to attend school board meetings in the future and result in an increased trust in school officials, a study published ...
