Brown faculty are that rare academic combination — talented teachers and dedicated researchers. From medical breakthroughs to major archeological digs, our faculty are making front-page news and turning Brown research into solutions for real-world problems.
Discovering New Knowledge
Let us imagine a straight line
Dancer Ami Shulman runs in Associate Professor of Music Joseph “Butch” Rovan’s interactive installation, which is inspired by two 19th-century visions of motion and time. Learn more
Credit: Butch Rovan.
Modeling the flight of a bat
State-of-the-art motion capture technology is applied to a high speed stereo video of a bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) flying in a wind tunnel. Learn more
Credit: D.J. Willis, M. Kostandov, D.K. Riskin, J. Peraire, D.H. Laidlaw, S.M. Swartz, K.S. Brerer, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From lab to market
Brown University and Draper Laboratory have partnered to turn research discoveries into products that help tackle energy challenges. Learn more
Credit: Brown University.
eMotive
Chris Bull, senior research engineer and senior lecturer in Engineering, works on a prototype for an electric car developed through a collaboration between faculty members at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Learn more
Credit: Brown Engineering.
Graduate science research
Student Don Ho creates silver- and gold-alloy nanoparticles that allow researchers to use light to study how neural cells are activated. Ho's research is supported by a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant. Learn more
Credit: John Abromowski/Brown University.
Ice coring
Scientists extracted a 100-meter-long ice core in Greenland to measure how fossil fuel burning has disrupted the global nitrogen cycle. Meredith Hastings (left), assistant professor of geological sciences and the lead study author, is shown with Bella Bergeron, Ice Coring and Drilling Services. Learn more
Credit: Meredith Hastings/Julia Jarvis.
“A leap in evolution”
Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering John Donoghue (pictured) and Associate Professor of Engineering Leigh Hochberg talked to 60 Minutes about BrainGate, a mind-to-movement system developed in Donoghue‘s lab that allows, for example, a paralyzed person to steer a wheelchair via thoughts. Learn more
Credit: John Abromowski/Brown University.
Surveying sexual behavior
Researchers led by Assistant Professor of Sociology Nancy Luke gather survey information for a NIH-funded project that aims to improve quantitative methods for the collection of sexual behavior data in Kenya. Learn more
Credit: Nancy Luke.
Mercury cloth
Brown University engineering students Love Sarin (left) and Brian Lee display a nanoselenium-enriched cloth that can capture mercury vapor from broken compact fluorescent lamps. Brown has applied for federal patents. Learn more
Credit: John Abromowski/Brown University.
Moon mapping
A three-color mosaic is derived from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) near-infrared spectrometer by a team led by Geological Sciences Professor Carle Pieters. Learn more
Credit: NASA/ISRO/Brown University/USGS.
Tracing the Mayan past
MacArthur grant winner and Anthropology Professor Stephen Houston traces a detail from a Mayan frieze. Learn more
Credit: Brown University.
Big Rhody
Vice President Clyde Briant (far left) welcomes the new supercomputer to campus, along with (from left) IBM’s Nick Bowen, Gov. Donald Carcieri, and Prof. Jan Hesthaven. Learn more about the impact of high-performance computing
Credit: John John Abromowski/Brown University.
Creative collaborators
Graduate students make important contributions to research at Brown. Learn more
Credit: John Abromowski/Brown University.