U. researchers study greenhouse gases in ice as part of national effort
In an effort to better understand Earth鈥檚 climate history, University researchers have joined a nationwide collaborative effort to discover Antarctica鈥檚 oldest ice.
In an effort to better understand Earth鈥檚 climate history, University researchers have joined a nationwide collaborative effort to discover Antarctica鈥檚 oldest ice.
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.
Nightmares surrounding STEM PhDs are plentiful 鈥 classic examples are the student who spends 14 hours a day in the lab, the coworker who sabotages others鈥 experiments and the newly graduated student who stares down the barrel of two consecutive postdoctoral positions because they are unprepared ...
Only 27 percent of workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the United States are women, despite women comprising 48 percent of our nation鈥檚 workforce, according to a 2019 study. Breaking this down even further, subdivisions within STEM including engineering and computer science ...
Several student organizations at Brown, which focus on supporting students of color in STEM and business fields, have been working to improve representation in academic and professional spaces and foster inclusive communities on campus.聽 Mosaic+ 鈥渇ocuses on creating 鈥 a community for underrepresented ...
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the healthcare system, the job market and the simple ability to conduct activities that once took place in person. This disruption also extends to summer internships and other professional development opportunities for students that went remote or were canceled altogether, ...
After most University labs slipped into a lull in March following the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduates are anxious to partake in hands-on research investigations once again. But with a pandemic still pushing onward, popping into a laboratory at one鈥檚 whim is no longer feasible. Resuming ...
Professor of Engineering Christopher Rose was appointed associate provost for STEM initiatives effective July 1, according to a Today@Brown announcement made by Provost Richard Locke P鈥18 July 21. In his new role, Rose will help grow the share of faculty who have been historically underrepresented ...
Two University assistant professors received one of the most prestigious awards for an early-career researcher in science, mathematics or economics when they were named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows last month. As part of the fellowship, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ou Chen and Assistant Professor ...
I was chatting with a friend the other day when I accidentally unearthed a source of deep psychological trauma 鈥 I asked her how math class was going. All the joy left her face in an instant, replaced with a curious mix of fear, panic and anger. Though this story is anecdotal, it reflects a rather ...
Nothing is worse than a night exam. Many classes, especially large lectures in STEM fields, schedule exams late in the evening. At their worst, these exams can span from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. They may seem to be a necessary evil, since the regular class time is often not long enough for an exam, and the ...
We don鈥檛 have all the answers when we first get to college. For most students who intend to concentrate in STEM fields, the difficulty level of academics increases exponentially from high school to college. For many first-years, this is the first time in their lives living by themselves, exposed to ...
Four of the University鈥檚 assistant professors have received the Sloan Foundation fellowship to further their research in STEM or related fields. Fellowship recipients, who must hold a PhD equivalent, each received $70,000 to be used on their research in a two year period. The fellowship is one of ...
Universities function as conduits for insular communities 鈥 your cohort, the other people in your concentration, your housemates and others. The further you commit to one course of study and the deeper you dive into a particular field, the more insulated these communities can become. While heavy specialization ...
If you are a STEM concentrator at Brown, research is key. The sooner an undergraduate gets into research, the better and more competitive their resume will be. To students either deciding sophomore spring they want to concentrate in STEM without any prior research experience, or students who come from ...
During the second week of August, the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics hosted GirlsGetMath@ICERM, a week-long day camp for girls in the Providence area entering 10th or 11th grade. The program started in 2014 under then-director of ICERM Jill Pipher, the University鈥檚 ...
With a focus on demographic disparities in STEM fields, several University faculty members and students spent Oct. 19 to 21 at the 2017 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science conference in Salt Lake City. They joined a community of around 3,000 scholars, tied together ...
鈥淗ow can you create black scientists if there鈥檚 no black scientific community?鈥 asked William Massey, professor of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton, during this week鈥檚 鈥淐elebrating Excellence in Science鈥 event. Hosted by the Science Center, this two-day lecture ...
鈥淪hakespeare is stupid.鈥 This came out of the mouth of a good friend of mine, an applied math concentrator, over lunch one day. Having just survived shopping period, everyone at the table was comparing class schedules. Between the humanities and science, technology, engineering and math concentrators, ...
According to the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, though the percentage of Brown students from historically underrepresented groups has increased over 4 percent since 2004, the percent of HUG science, technology, engineering and math concentrators has been about constant. Though low-income undergraduates ...